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Holiday means real work gets done.
Made it to HD. Picked up the skins for the torsion box, gas pipe, threaded rod, and random fasteners. It was great that HD cut up the wodd and pipe for me. Big time and effort saver there. That allowed me to get most of the torsion box glued up. Love how this build squares itself. Seems like everyone who builds a joes2006 shows pictures of the torsion skin being clamped while gluing. Would hate to go against the grain.
Ordered a Microcarve z axis assembly. John is excellent and I'm very excited to have that part for my build.
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Good and not so good weekend
Busy but productive weekend. Was able to get some linear slides assembled. Only some because I miscounted the number of 5/16 nuts required. Had to drill out the threads of half the nuts between the bearing and aluminum angle for the x linear slides. The bolts that are available to me are not threaded the entire length leaving a good 1/4 where you cannot put a nut. I don't have many stationary tool but I do have a drill press. Times like these I'm thankful for it. I was going to use the slides off the JGRO but none if the angles are 1 1/4".
Cut a few more parts, glued the z axis carriage, and test fitted. For sure I'll have to sand the rails. Made a slight sizing error on the x rail bearing adjustment. It's about 1/16" off which makes it difficult to use the bolts as originally designed. Hopefully glue will do it's job. will glue a bit more support on the top just to be safe.
Did I mention I'm getting a microcarve z axis? Excited about that. To accommodate the assembly I bought a 1" hdpe cutting board that I will use as a spacer plate better the assembly and carriage. The front plate on the carriage has been changed to 3/4" mdf. The hdpe plate should be strong enough to be drilled and tapped.
I felt like a rushed a bit this weekend trying to get so many small tasks done. I have to slow down and do better work.
My jgro days are numbered.
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