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13-01-2014 #7
You'll be fine with those rails to start with. I'm not saying the rails aren't important, but it's the whole picture not just the rails that affects the overall stiffness and the rest of your design looks pretty strong (as it's a fixed gantry) so you'll get away with it. For example, I cut plenty of aluminium on my machine before changing the Z-axis rails to profile rails and didn't notice much difference from the profile rails as the weakest point lies elsewhere.
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