John's Alu Profile build

[Mister Mills]

I may well downsize to 1m x 1 m or 1m x 1.2m. Seriously Don't have the room and no real need for the full size setup. It took me 6 months to build the Big girl! and if I am to be honest I don't know why I went so big. The joy for me was building her but she has never had a full sized sheet of anything on the table!!!!!!!. If I go 1 x 1.2(Cutting) I will arrange it so I can slide a full size sheet into and through her to save cutting it into several smaller pieces. I have a few smaller ball screws that might fit the new proposed dimensions and I would prefer to use those instead of the R&P. This time round I will Catalog the build :). I have some holiday time booked in 2 weeks so I might start the strip down then. Fingers crossed!

[Evengravy]

Ah here. It never ends. But I bet the next one you build will be better. My first one was an mdf abomination, second much better, and this much much better (so far) we'll see what happens. I'd never go away from propper linear rails again though, anything else is just a false economy in my book as you spend so much time messing you'd be better to buy something made for the job upfront and save the hassle.

I've been busy planning the base, but work is busy atm so I won't update just yet. Bits and pieces are on route but ill post info soon to that end.