Busy Busy

Lots has happened in the past few days.  First off, I forgot to mention on Monday that I got all the pieces for the gantry milled out by Terry at Village Sign Works and picked them up last Saturday.  As you can see, I've also made headway on putting them together.

On Tuesday I put in all the orders for hardware, and today the last package arrived!  Sourcing the aluminum rails locally proved to be a great idea.  It turns out that there's a local company called Admiral Metals that sold me full ten foot rails; this allowed me to avoid having a join in the long x-axis rails, which would most likely have caused a small bump.  I also happend to run into a fellow CNC machinist while I was there who offered to help me machine any small parts I might need.  I love this town.  
I now have everything I need to finish the build; the only thing I have yet to get is an old computer to run the thing, but I've got several leads.  Tomorrow is going to be a long work day.