Re: suggestions for largish gantry for laser (and possibly router)

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> Whew, you had things pretty easy to design until you threw in
> the "cut through a full sheet of 3/4" plywood" clause. Do you mean
> in one pass? If so, that's gonna take a lot of router and a lot of
> motor torque to shove it through without burning. If you can live
> with multiple passes then I can stop hyperventilating!
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> <good stuff snipped>

Thanks for the long reply! I will have to think over things a bit
anyway. I don't really have room for two 4' x 8' machines in the
garage shop, so i really do need a machine that could hold a decent
(3-5HP?) size wood router AND perhaps move the optics for the laser.
Actually, making a mounting plate that would allow me to bolt on
either a router or the laser would probably work. It is pretty easy
bolting the laser to my shizuoka mill currently. The big problem is
now I am having to cut all sorts of stuff for my wife on my mill and
can't use it to cut metal :-/

Rick