LaserCut Mendel Shays X Carriage
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This is a page to describe modifications I made to the TechZone Laser-Cut Mendel Kit for the X-axis carriage assembly.
The primary modification is in 6 places, I used threaded inserts into the wood so that I could screw machine screws into it. There were two places, one with 4 screws, one with 2 screws, that I felt were going to be problematic to access once the carriage was assembled onto the X-axis rails.
Here is one such location:
These screw heads would be partly or completely inaccessible once the X-carriage is mounted on the rails. So my answer was to use these threaded inserts:
