What part am I looking for? Some kind of sliding rail.. - CNCzone.com-The Largest Machinist Community on the net!

Jeep07 · #1 10-13-2010, 12:04 PM

OK so I'm redoing the floating head on my table with hopefully a quality sliding rail with a stop on the bottom and the switch at the top. Can anybody point me in the direction of where I can buy the parts to construct this? I'm basically wanting to emulate this

MVI_0023.flv video by bigtoy302 - Photobucket

I built my first one on the mega cheap with a ballbearing rail from a drawer slide. :/.. Worked but I want better now.

If somebody know where I can buy one that has a torch older too I'd be very pleased

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Thanks.

millman52 · #2 10-13-2010, 03:27 PM

What's shown above is just a small length of precision linear rail 15 or 20 MM & a bearing cartrige to fit. Then the torch holder is machined from aluminum & most likely clamped to the rail.

Here is an entire assembly made by K2 listed on Ebay

K2 CNC Plasma Float Head - 6" Plasma CNC Z Axis. - eBay (item 380275890533 end time Oct-15-10 01:08:01 PDT)

Jeep07 · #3 10-13-2010, 04:34 PM

Thanks! That's the info I needed to know.

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