Out of curiousity, have anyone tried to counterbalancing a heavy Zaxis by using
a pair of slim, pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders.
Springs pulls harder the more you stretch them, and gasprings... are they slow?
One cylinder to push the axis up, and the other one placed somewhere "out of sight", with a weight on it. Or are gas springs both fast and reliable for a small milling machine?
But..ifi really need a counterweight for this little machine, i probaly overloaded a weak unsupported X-axis anyway. And finding space for a cylinder can be tricky enough.