My question to you all is what do you think of THK style slides for use on the x any y-axis. I'm planing on (going to) build a cnc router. I was planning on using bearings on drill rod for the axis'. A recent trip to a local metals yard turned up something interesting in the scrap section. There before my eyes was some kind of slide assembly with 2 THK type rails and at least 2 slides to go along with. Very, very little rust, slid very smoothly, bolted down to a rigid frame (straight). I left them there because I didn't have a Torx bit to unbolt it all. Oh, Did I forget to mention that the rails were about 8 FEET long. Is worth going back for these parts for 30 bucks? |