Think of this as a Supplement to the Phoenix Hexapod Tutorial on the Lynxmotion website to assist you in your build. Sorry, no pictures as these are reflections of what I learned (sometimes the hard way) after the build was completed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/phoenix-hexapod-build-avoiding-mistakes-building-a-better-bot-1