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        <title>on the subject of bearings and rails</title>
        <description> I see piles of server rails go to the dumps, many of them are very well constructed and meant to hold a lot of weight, they have ball bearings etc.

Has anyone tried upcycling these as 3d printer rails?</description>
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            <title>Re: on the subject of bearings and rails</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ yeah, duh... drawer slides, high quality, with springs, ball bearings, meant for about 100 pounds. wolfstrap is a good example. I was thinking along the lines of more reprapish printing parts to work with it etc. because we already have to buy rails and tones of bearings. I like prusajr s idea of the bushings, haven't tried it out yet, and I've seen the linear bearing variations... but to me the server slides / drawer slides would actually be fewer / cheaper parts than the current solution, which I know is always a goal. I guess I was already answered... it's been used in wolfstrap, and not with printed parts type machine.<br />
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thanks.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Anthong Redbeard</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:38:55 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: on the subject of bearings and rails</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,64108,64151#msg-64151</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I suspect that even with the high quality and heavy weight rating, they will still not have the desired stability for a large reprap. But as traumflug said, they would be great for a repstrap. I do not know where they are being dumped locally to give them a try, but if I did it sounds like a better solution then the drawer slides I could by at Home Depot.<br />
<br />
Mike]]></description>
            <dc:creator>rocket_scientist</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:49:11 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,64108,64112#msg-64112</guid>
            <title>Re: on the subject of bearings and rails</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,64108,64112#msg-64112</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ You mean something like drawer sliders? WolfStrap makes use of them.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Traumflug</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:41:54 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>on the subject of bearings and rails</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,64108,64108#msg-64108</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I see piles of server rails go to the dumps, many of them are very well constructed and meant to hold a lot of weight, they have ball bearings etc.<br />
<br />
Has anyone tried upcycling these as 3d printer rails?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Anthong Redbeard</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:43:38 -0400</pubDate>
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