The spindle mount has been designed and we started bolting everything in place. We had a used microscope stage that had precise up and down motion. A simple coupler was hacked together to mount a stepper motor onto the microscope stage. First testing proved that the unit performs smooth. We also had a friend mill out a mount for a Dremel tool.
The stepper motor mount is simply a piece of plastic pipe that happened to fit well enough to the microscope and the motor.
