Finally a bit of progress to report. It's taken way longer than I'd hoped to make up some of the aluminium plates for the gantry mounting but did the first fit up last night and I'm happy with how it looks:

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Without having a definitive datum to work from this is how I set my first linear rail:

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Is there a better method for ensuring the rail is straight?