Quote Originally Posted by Wal View Post
Euri, I'm talking about supporting the rails with 8mm bolts... That just sounds like a really bad idea to me. How are you proposing to make this work without introducing kinks into the rails as you torque them up? Fair enough, if you could guarantee that each and every tapped hole in the plate was IDENTICAL and furthermore the tapped holes in the rails were IDENTICAL then (despite it still being a really bad idea) it probably could work, but why? Why why why..? This is about the silliest way of doing it..! Okay, mounting the rails on blue-tack would be sillier, but not by much. Just think about it for a moment - I'm not trying to disparage, but to me this method makes no sense at all..!!

Wal.
I have to agree with Wal on this, it really looks like your making life hard for yourself for no other reason than to compromise the integrity of the machine.

It's nice to design somthing totally bespoke, never seen before and so on but I too really would encourage you to look at this from a different perspective, setting aside what the machine will look like cosmetically, I say cosmetically because we really can't see there is advantage to your rail fixture method and it's just going to serve you a handycap.

.Me