The marathon session of weekend before last resulted in some injuries that I needed to heal from. My right thumb and wrist were strained in a way that made it difficult for me to get a solid grip on anything. This took a surprisingly long time to heal.
I ended up taking over a full week off, and now I feel like I have to jumpstart the build again.
One thing that’s been holding me back is that I know that I am going to have to re-cut one of the gantry sides. The two sides are not the same size, and one of them has a lot of mistakes in the cut, so I feel like I need to cut that one out again. It’s not a lot of work, but it’s just enough to keep me from getting anything done.
I’m a bit disillusioned with the inaccuracy of some of the holes. I blame my edge drilling, but it really makes the build feel delicate and twitchy and not sturdy and reliable. I’ll keep moving forward, but I have a feeling that I’ll be cutting out parts for a new machine sooner rather than later.
I need to stop finding reasons to delay the build, and start just building.
I need to order at least 2 more pieces of aluminum angle for the Z axis rails. I think I can reuse the rails I already bought (that are the wrong length) for the Y axis. I measured the Y axis width at 59″ and I can easily make 60″ lengths, but I don’t think that will be a problem.
In “moving forward” news, I found some hollow-core closet doors on craigslist for real cheap, and I drove down to pick them up today. $20 got me 6 different doors, all 80″ long and with a variety of useful widths. The original plan for them is to become the feed tables for my tablesaw, but it occurs to me that I might be able to use these for my torsion box. Hmm.
Anyway, got to get back to some wrench-turning and etc work tonight. It’s officially the rainy season, and I have projects waiting on this machine.