Originally Posted by joe2000che that would help some left to right as the gantry would be pushing on both pipes instead of one in any given direction. |
I'm still in the early planning stages and the design may change a few more times before I actually start building.
One of the things I really like about your second design, and this one, is that the bearings are outside the rails rather than inside like the original JGRO. This would appear to increases the Y-axis travel without increasing the overall width of the machine. I probably won't end up using the vertical torsion box idea since that will take up a lot of my Y-axis travel with the extra thickness. I have a limited overall size that I must maintain if I ever plan to get my truck back in the garage.
I have gotten a ton of ideas from this thread and your previous machine. I'm anxious to see the table for this one.
Keep up the good work.