Quote Originally Posted by ~andy View Post
I was thinking of drilling and tapping to a plate, and mounting off that to get the correct height.
I understand your thinking and desire to makes things that bit easier if your time or equipment challenged and i'm not trying to put youoff profile or push you into any particular design but the point I'm trying to push is if you must use this Profile for time and tool reasons then you won't save any work over the L design that uses Profile costing third the price. You will actually create more work and less strength/stiffness.

I use both steel and profile and like my comments before I know 100% the L design along with profile works perfectly for the application of cutting light to Medium hardness materials. Steel would be my first choice every time if heavier duty machine required or Budget was limited has it's simply the best way to achieve both. It's just time intensive compared to profile and needs more equipment/skills to work.

Like John says there's much more to successful machine than material strength and I can tell you for sure building a machine with the mindset of compromising machine strength or design in favour of easy building is recipe for a under performing machine.!