Well I'm trying to decide how I want to lay out my rails and such on my Y axis gantry layer.. Here are a few drawings..
Baiscly I can't decide if I want to mount the rails to the front surface of my 1"x8" tall plate or if I should mount to the top and bottom.
This plate is also 80" wide.
Still have to decide on what the boxing will be on the back side for extra support..
Since my rails and slides are pretty tall (around 1.88" from back surafce of rail to face of the of the slide I was thinking this would set the front plate off really far away from the plate.)..
But mounting to the face might help with twisting flex of the plate more then mounting on the top and bottom.
Just don't know.
Anyway attached are a few views. Also have to decide how my gantry will interface with the sides for the long axis..
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