John's Alu Profile build

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That's awesome! This has given me some ideas for sure... Design wise it's not a million miles away from mine, I really wish I could weld. Maybe I can think of something I could make work using aluminium profile.

Welding isn't that hard, esp if you can get your hands on a Mig welder. You can even hire them from some a decent hire shops.
The welds don't need to be industrial strength. Steel is very forgiving so it allows you a few attempts if get it wrong and along with a grinder you can hide all your screw ups away.

I can't recall if it was HD rails, it was this type of profile from Dold Mechatronic: https://www.dold-mechatronik.de/Alum...-type-groove-8 maybe there is heavier type out there and that was my mistake.

That is the ITEM "L" section the "L" stands for light. It's exactly what you see on that vertical machine but I'm using the heavier version which doesn't end with "L".
However, I've used the "L" on many machines and it works perfectly fine so I wouldn't be too worried.