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Anyone have any thoughts on this subject that may ease my mental anguish?

I sure like the design you have for your tray. I wanted something like that myself, but I had been using whatever I had laying around to make a base/cabinet and did not think far enough ahead to get everything to go in one direction. It was important enough to me that I almost did it all over, but then decided to live with what I did because this is just an occasional use hobby machine (I tend to build more machines than actually make anything with them).

So, for one, I would stick with your tapered to front design, I love that ! But, I would probably skip the auger, or at least make it that you can add an auger when and if really necessary.

Dimensionally, I ended up with a 58" wide by 22" deep cabinet with tray area, but the machines column adds another 3" or so out the back. While the machine has progressed since, there are some pics of my cabinet and tray at the bottom of this thread: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/bencht...-opinions.html