Good evening, I am looking at building my first CNC and for the sake of making it easy, I'm going with the C-Beam linear actuators. Here's what I'm thinking: 2x 1000mm C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle (C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle) for my Y Axis (Can I run these both off of the same port on the interface board?) 1x 1000mm C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle (C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle) for my X Axis (Would this C-Beam alone be sufficient enough to hold up the Z Axis with a Makita Router or do I need to put some cross bars for added stability?) 1x 250mm C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle (C-Beam® Linear Actuator Bundle) for my Z Axis (I plan on putting a shield on this one - do I need one on the others?) Table top would be 12x 1000mm V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail (V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail) - I know this is 960mm and I'm accounting for a little space on both sides + putting the cable chain on one side. The Base (Y axis) would be held together with 3x 1000mm V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail (V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail) I planned to connect the X axis with 2x 500mm V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail (V-Slot® 20x80 Linear Rail) - one on each side. As I get more into building the parts / trying to make the frame as sturdy as possible - I keep thinking of more things I might need - such as between the Y Axis C-Beam's, should I put some 920mm v-slot rails? I was thinking something like: 4x 920mm 1010-s (1010-S) (to help stabilize the table top in the middle (roughly 7 inches apart)) and 2x 920mm 1030-s (1030-S) (for the front and back) My plan is to have the option to put a 5th axis on the table top to be able to taper wood dowels - ideally, I'd want this part removable so I can use the entire top if needed. Can I hook both of my Y-Axis motors into same spot on my board so that I can use a 4axis board or do I need to get a 5 or 6 axis board instead? What do you recommend? My motors are: Wantai 4Axis Nema23 57BYGH115-003 3A 425oz 4leads&Driver 4.2A 50v (I purchased this 7 years ago on eBay and never took them out of the box because I decided to go to school and now I am wanting to actually build my CNC Machine - If I need to buy new motors, what do you recommend I get? I plan on getting 2000mm of Drag Chain Cable (for Y->X and X->Z) I was going to connect everything with Corner brackets / drop in nuts for screws .(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078GKCK8W and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMLY9MZX) Did I miss anything? Sorry for asking a million different things all in one post - Thanks for any feedback/help in advance!
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