Assembly instructions

Initial setup

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- Gather pieces
- Tap the three carrier blocks with an M4 tap
- Tap the Z interferometer carrier mounting holes with an M4 tap
- Cleanup the M4 rod guiding holes
- Cleanup the Carrier blocks mounting holes

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- Mount the Z carrier block with two M4 flat head screws and nuts : pay attention to the orientation !
- Mount the interferometer carrier
- Prepare a M4 rod with two M4 nuts tightened against each other at the end and secured with cyanoacrylate glue
- This becomes a kind of handle : use it to run the rod through the whole Z stage, starting at the bottom
- Butt the two nuts against the lower Z rod guide
- On the other side, run three nuts, two of which must butt against the upper Z rod guide, be tightened against each other, and secured with CA glue. They must butt against the guide as any space left here will become backlash in the Z axis.
- Add the Z knob, add another M4 nut, and secure this assembly very well by tightening it and adding CA glue
- Add oil on the rod, on both sides of the Z carrier block, and where the nuts butt against the guides.
- Add the Z handle

Congratulations ! You have completed the Z axis !

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- Take the Y axis upper part and run 2 M4 screws through the Z axis mounting holes
- Screw the Z axis to the Y axis
- Add CA glue where the two Z axis pillars meet the Y axis top
- Take the Y axis carrier block and run two M4 screws through it
- Place it on the lower Y axis, and run this in the Y gliders
- Flip the assembly and secure the screws through the hole
- You now have a free-gliding Y axis. Repeat the steps of the Z rod assembly to add motion.

Congratulations ! You have completed the Y axis !

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- Repeat those same steps for the X axis.

Congratulations ! You have a full XYZ table !