# Frame design options **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Details\ **Created:** [July 29, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/frame-design-options/322 "2017-07-29T10:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![bdillahu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@bdillahu](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/bdillahu)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/frame-design-options/322/70 "2017-11-28T02:25:38Z")
> [@mrfugu](#): > > I’ll be building a unistrut based frame tomorrow. Excellent work so far, I’m happy to follow in your footsteps, stand on shoulders, etc! 🙂 > [@mrfugu](#): > > I’m wondering if you could post a close up of your motor mount attachment to the frame? Nothing fancy here… just a couple of flathead bolts with some big washers on the bottom… Let me know if that doesn’t show what you want/need… ![06_IMG_1513](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/maslowcnc/original/2X/6/6cb1432bb0d1f91b93abe36468ff7be14d741426.jpg) ![13_IMG_1514](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/maslowcnc/original/2X/2/27d577af7d0d3f8996920309bcf08977b54f968f.jpg) > [@mrfugu](#): > > I’d like to work together on sorting out the bottom lip (work piece stand) if you’re inclined, and any other fiddly bits of the Unistrut Frame design. Sure thing… would love to swap some ideas. I would really like to have some kind of “pull out” or “removable” dogs instead of a constant board… I think that would make it easier to support various sized pieces. I may be wrong, but usually we’re cutting decent sized sheet goods and you don’t really need support all the way across. > [@mrfugu](#): > > I noticed that the bottom unistrut (those mounted to 2x’s) might benefit from facing the other direction (with the turned over channel facing outboard of the machine) so as to use the unistrut channel-nuts to lock that strut to the rest of the frame. There are several places that I’m not using the unistrut in the “right way” with their fasteners, mostly due to my reluctance to buy a channel nut when I could just buy a cheap bolt (for this application that was strong enough in my opinion). So don’t take what you see as the “best way”. > [@mrfugu](#): > > I also thought that maybe rather than a long 2x4 on the bottom, 2x ~6" long pieces of 2x4 would allow you to use 2 L-Brackets on each pad, and prevent the tilting you describe, if those pads were placed as close to the vertical connection as possible. Not sure breaking it into sections would help, although having a L-bracket on each side of the bottom unistrut might help. Sorry, I’m not sure I’m understanding your description… may have to have a drawing/picture on this one. My 2x4 is tilting some, but I’m really twisting the entire unistrut. Might should have the heavier full-height kind here, but not sure that would help that much. > [@mrfugu](#): > > Hopefully by this time tomorrow I’ll have some shots up in a new Unistrut Frame thread, with a detailed wiki page to follow shortly after. > > cheers, > > mrfugu Looking forward to seeing it! One nice thing about Unistrut is that when you come up with a better design, I can undo some bolts and copy you 🙂 My other (eventual) goal is to have a panel saw/track saw mount on this… that’s part of the reason the bottom crosspiece is turned as it is - to mount the track there… we’ll see if I get that done eventually. Bruce --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/frame-design-options/322)._