Now in the meantime between all this since I do have a bunch of wood to burn on this piece, I do want to try out other bits and see how they all work. Practice bit changes. Stuff like that. I am sure will have questions once this metal
Sled is assembled. Don’t want to get too ahead of myself just because I finally finished a cut… 
baby steps! Also want to watch Orob’s video again and figure out this “board” feature as could not get it work for me. Would be especially helpful now that half of board is wasted…also how to rotate the objects to maximize the board, that’s going to be something need to figure out
you need to leave the system idle fora couple seconds after it stops moving to
let it save it’s position before powering anything down.
Thanks David. I will make note of that. Even when resetting earlier it was minutes in between shutting anything down so things should of saved Will make note thank you!!
@Virgs1 Just put that bad cut side to the inside of the machine and no one will know the difference! 
I put the Touch Z on my machine this weekend and it worked flawlessly. Z-eroing is way faster and much simpler now!!! You’ll love it!
Rick
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Well that was the inside; those were mounting strip pockets. I figured be easier to push the wood against something to drive screw, and don’t need my setback templates. One problem, that darn hole on the side of it that shouldn’t be there, that’s a lot of fill :)!!! Lol.
That is great to hear!! I worked on cleaning up the aluminum tonight. Wet sanding and all that as my kit had a bunch of wonky gouges and scratches on it. Tomorrow if time permits we will try to assemble the new sled. Then the Z touch. I cannot wait to implement that!!! Glad to hear it’s a time saver.
I do have to go back and look at my Solidworks design. I compared to my template to build one by hand. It’s perfect in many places, then too big in other parts. It was so complicated to build in Solidworks with all the angles and measurements and points to get that work on such an odd shaped part, maybe I messed something up or values shifts with added measurements. I think the back that’s against the wall got un-squared somehow to the rest of the front where all the angles are. Deal with that after the sled and Z touch stuff though. Then off to races. I am sure will figure out what I calculated wrong.
All in all not bad for my first part considering I have zero Solidworks experience, and CAD experience. So if I can make that even as close as it is to the true side panel shape, I should be ok I tackle this one next Rick…My Galaga…this one is the creme de creme for me!
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Very Nice!!
Thank you
You know It’s my luck…the mounting stock for the Z axis aluminum “box”…watching Orob’s video and clearly it’s missing in what was sent to me! I sent email for the piece to be sent to me ASAP from Metal Maslow, but I am going to lose at least a week on this sled build is my guess. So we are on hold on that for now.
Orob do you happen to know those dimensions of the stock? Is it something I can build quickly with maybe something from depot until the correct piece comes in, or is something that is tapped for the long screws to go into? I am referring to that square stock in the video with mounts the Z axis “box” to the sled… thanks for anything you can provide if even anything at all…
If you can screenshot the video of the part you are missing or photo the missing area, I can measure for you on my sled.
do you have the link to hour assembly video?
Thanks Orob!! Let me try to find that…
I did, trying to find it on my phone though so can screen shot it. I need to take this 30
Mins call and will see if can find on my phone and snap a screen shot of Orobs video
Hey Orob, this is the mounting bar I am referring to…sorry when paused it darkens up in the video. It’s the bar in your right hand. Thank you for anything you can offer!!
What I cannot tell is if the ends of that stock is tapped with threads so it locks in the side of the box, then those long screws hold it down. So not sure how easy it would be to replicate it? I suppose could maybe design a different way and use nuts and bolts with flat stock or something like that
So the piece you are asking about is a hollow 1"x1" channel with threaded inserts in the ends and two holes. (great screenshot by the way) You could probably get a 2x2 and cut it to length and screw into it from the sides and then drill the piece using the sled mounting holes as a template for spacing and use the included screws to tighten it to the base. I imagine there are several other scenarios you could dream up to effectively pull the gantry together with the sled using the provided hardware. the piece you are after is the length of the inside of the gantry.
Thanks Orob! Appreciate this. I am going to attempt something like you mentioned. I have not heard back yet from Metal Maslow, so in the meantime will attempt something. It’s funny I found that spot on the video quick, then hit some button by accident and it all went away. So when I found video again it started from the beginning and could not find the fast forward on the amazon tablet. Didn’t realize it goes away (at least on mine) when holding it horizontally. So I wanted it all again Lol. It’s funny I laid all my stuff out, just like you did and for days sanded and polished that aluminum to clean it up. Not once did I realize I was missing that mounting bar!! Thanks again appreciate all your help and advice
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Just checking in. Hows goes the battle?