John's Alu Profile build

[Evengravy]

Just thinking out loud here John, but once you have the base epoxied up for leveling the rails you might as well use that surface as the base of your coolant-catching tray with a drain down to a storage tank below. Maybe build up the surface to direct the fluid to the drain. Rather like an Australian bathroom where the entire floor is built up round the outside to direct any spilled water into a central drain.

Hey, I think I'm following what you mean, that's not a bad idea actually, thanks. What I could do is run channels at the sides down into pipework and into the catchment tank from there, rather than fluid running over the front and back, and build a lip at the front and back for liquid catchment. That might make things a bit difficult loading and unloading stock though, particularly if stock is to overhand the Y (I do that sometimes).

The spindle only gets within 150mm or so of the alu sections which holds the rails left and right so there's plenty of space there for a liquid channel. I must draw up some options to gauge the simplest approach before starting.