Introduction/Assembly Advice

[NPNK]

@BillBlades, nicely done! I really look forward to seeing how you integrate that!

Can someone confirm the benefits of pre-tapping all extrusions? I like many of the ideas on this particular post:

X-Carve mod pack 1

Yet another list of mods for the X-Carve. A big thanks to this forum for the inspiration. hand tapped all extrusions and used flanged button head cap screws (ISO7380F) to connect extrusions to plates (shown bellow next to an original self tapping screw) [image] expanded the X-axis slots on the Y side plates (marked purple bellow) by 3mm horizontally towards their neighboring holes [image] and used 3mm alu spacers for the X axis carriage V-wheels in order to use [image] a piece of 40x40 V…