Foam XL hot wire cutter

[charlieuk]

Thanks for the update glad they are ok and will do the job. As much as I want to use slides at probably over £700 by the time they arrive just to do two axis I think I will give the roller idea a go first and do a few quick mock ups and see if I can get the stiffness to do what I want at least for starters. The aluminum on its own is the best part of £500 so to do such a simple job that im after a machine that would end up at around £1500 is going to be over my budget.

[charlieuk]

been looking around again and have been wondering if 16mm bright mild steel rod could be used with some sbr bearings if I was to make some sort of supports however I did then find 2 x 2500mm sbr16 rails and 4 x sbr16 bearings for £112 which for the time it would save may be a good compromise assuming that they should but join together ok. The only thing I guess is it would mean ether making a interface plate to mount the rail or drilling and taping the extrusion to mount the rail.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-sets-SBR...UAAOSwTdJXRW-h