I have been watching eBay for aluminum but the prices seem to have a great range, and so does the quality of the aluminum.
Your rails are setting behind me as I type this. Good news it I'm moving out of my college apartment and into a nice quiet duplex with a garage to work in

. Bad news is I have some other large house hold purchases I need to make before I can devote the extra discretionary cash to the cnc project

. I need to hold my self back and not go crazy on eBay with the credit card

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If you get any shorter rails in the 12-18” range say SR20 or SR25 let me know, I’m looking for some larger longer rails for my z-axis, because I’m not happy with the ones I currently have

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I understand the not having allot of advice when it comes to cnc, I’m in the same boat. Now if you have any physics or computational physics questions, those I can answer .