Quote Originally Posted by CraftyGeek View Post
Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.
I'll give you Input.!! . . .Don't bother messing around with making your own rails it's false economy.!

In the early days I use to see this time and time again and it always ended up going the same way.?
They would work for a fews weeks then become baggy and trouble some. Constantly sticking and stalling motors, crap building up on rails and jamming bearings etc etc etc with same result for everyone.!! They become frustrated with chasing problems and either scrapped the machine or changed rails for real thing.
Over the last few years, which wasn't the case back then, supported linear round rail has become so cheap it's just not worth the hassle of not buying them.
SO do your self a favour and buy supported linear round rail to start with you'll only end up doing so any way and the machine will perform twice better, give trouble free use from the get-go and last for years.