Hello, I had an idea or a pretty sweet upgrade to my lowrider 3 I just finished building and wanted to hear if anyones tinkered with anything similar.
I made my machine 4X8 so it can handle a full sheet of plywood, but then what if I wanted to cut two full sheets of plywood at a time. If I just extended the X axis to be 10ft a full length conduit then in theory I could attach another router assembly to it and have a stick keep them 4ft apart and fastened together so the original router assembly will move the second router assembly (that doesn’t have a motor installed) along the x axis. I’d likely want to mirror the Y axis conduit rail assembly onto both sides to give the thing a better chance at working. It would be a relatively cheap upgrade to double my cutting capacity, I could even install more router assemblys along the rail but even just having two might be overkill haha, just such a cool idea.
The trouble with two rails is that if they are imperfect, then they will “fight” each other on the X position of the gantry, and it will tend produce worse results than a single rail. With one rail determining X position and the other end following, it should work fine even if the X axis is long. It won’t be worse when it gets farther away from the rail.