You heard of the magic black smoke, I present the magic black goo.

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Be careful what you clean your rails with lol.

Now I have replaced the rails I can laugh.

Dude, what did you do to them? :)

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Originally Posted by AndyUK

Dude, what did you do to them? :)

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I cleaned the rail with acid but some got into the carriage. I had rust spots at one end, if I ever try this again taking the rail off and removing the carriages first lol.

I had to hammer the carriage just to get it to move enough to expose the bolt to replace it, it was cheap clone rail I replace with cheap clone rail but this time I used proper Hiwin carriages.

Rest of the machine is proper Hiwin so whilst I had it stripped I thought it was time.

Was the gantry.

Wow! That's going into the "don't try this at home, kids" book :)