/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1446744
anything mounting to anything, the rail face to the column , the column to the base, ect
>>1446749
cast iron is homogeneous something, so there is no grain to the metal, so there should be very little warpage if any, also good vibration dampening. its also p easy to machine and looks so sexy once ground, but its so fucking messy and grinding it hurts my nose, i sneeze black shit for like a week

spindle is a seperate unit from this project, its main job is live tooling on my millturn project , its made of almost all O1. making proper spindles was the hardest part. the gantry i made in a few weeks, but the spindles took me years of research and trial and error and the fuckign preload spacers were done .0005'' at a time such a pain in the ass. this is spindle 6, im currently working on the final spindle design spindle7. unfortunately nothing is every final