Some of the very largest – and coolest – CNC machines use supported linear rail for their movement axes. For any home tinkerer trying to reproduce these supported rails, the problem of cost comes up ...

Adding linear rails to a length of aluminium extrusion is a common way to make a fairly rigid guiding structure, and I have been doing just that in the workshop. But things were not working quite ...

If you’re looking at CNC machines, or machine tools in general, heavier is better. That old drill press or mill made of a few hundred pounds of cast iron isn’t just better because it’s stood the test ...

I have bought some linear rails to make something. The need was for two 150mm MGN7 (7mm wide) rails and four trucks, and it transpired that buying five rails+trucks was the cheapest way to do this as ...

The BenchtopPro is somewhere between a desktop CNC and a small VMC. It weighs a few hundred pounds, has linear rails and ballscrews on all axis. The CNCDepot spindle is 24k RPM, 2.2kW (~3hp) and has ...