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Finish Up THE BED

Before moving on to building the gantry, there are a couple more items that need to be taken care of on the bed. A series of clamp boards fastened to the top of the bed provides a place to secure a workpiece. And at one end of the bed, a simple plywood box serves as the electronics enclosure.

As you can see in detail ‘a’ above and the photo below, the clamp boards

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