Quote Originally Posted by 12oclocker View Post
Eclipze, I have been following this thread since it started, figured I'd sign up, I've been looking to either build my own pick and place, or buy one. You design looks good, if you can think of a way to add support on your floating axis I'm sure that would increase placement speed and stability, as well as accuracy. Look forward to seeing how your's turns out.
Yes. I had a really old A3 scanner (SCSI bus) by Sharp, that had a similar arrangement, but had a dolly wheel on the out-board end. The head on it was very light.

Cheers,

Peter.