Thank you Hager and Dave. What I've done so far is build the table to the point of having the x-axis rails attached. As I have mentioned, I am doing this at the same time as experimenting with printer parts. I'm not that comfortable with the electronics part so I purchased a Xylotex 4-axis box that included 4 doubleshaft motors. Aside from the above I also purchased an additional 3-axis board that will be delegated later to the printer parts router machine. Cost is starting to climb but still is low for what I've gotten to.
I've been poking around with the x-y axis of the box with the motors attached to the print head assemblies (pic in Xylotex forum of this site) of some wide carriage dot-matrix printers, that I picked up from a surplus store, and have gotten to jog from input values. I'm still trying to learn how to get .dxf files translated for use with TurboCnc, can anybody here direct me to a post about the above?
I'll post pics of my progress on the table.
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