Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. I wanted to show you all my modification to my Workbee 1050. I got interested in modular fixturing after reading the CNC cookbook and decided that I wanted to add this to my machine. To account for the decrease in Z height that adding a plate would change, I replaced the bottom 20x40 linear rails for X with 20x80, to add an extra 40mm. The fixture plate I bought was a aluminum 12x36" plate that the vendor(1) had on clearance. I made some aluminum struts to go across the two bottom Y rails with a slight recess for positioning and a well measured hole to attach the fixture plate. Once the struts were made, I levelled them all down in position. After probing, there's ~0.1mm of height deviation over the length of the plate which I'm more than happy with. Future upgrades I have in mind: 1. Extra stiffening, through something like a quenbe kit. 2. SuperPID 2. 3. Ballscrews to replace the leadscrews. (1) Not sure on the rules on linking to other vendors on this forum
