After the core, I jumped right into cutting the EMT conduit. When I built the Primo, I didn’t think conduit would be rigid or strong enough. I’m here to say the stuff is pretty stout. I went down to Harbor freight and bought one of those cutters and the damn thing wobble all over the place. Ended up using my makeshift Angle grinder chopsaw hack to get the pipes exactly 54 5/8 inches. After that, the gantry was pretty straightforward to assemble, except I wasn’t sure to use the nuts when putting on the temporary strut braces, but I did.
My only question now at this point is how to mount the board box temporarily so I can cut my strut plates once I get this thing laid out on a temporary frame table. Maybe in the future, some longer screws and holes through one of the temporary strut brackets would suffice, unfortunately where the holes are in the box it’s just space in the temporary strut bracket.
Only thing I can think of is to put a washer underneath the strut bracket that covers the open space and put a m3 x 15 mm screw through there Or something that doesn’t stick out too far
Anyone else have a better idea I’m all ears as Ross Perot would say
