Ways, guides etc.

Gentlemen:
I want to build a mechanism similar to an xy table, and need to get some rails (barstock with one side angled) to make some ways, similar to what is found on the cross slide of a lathe, or an Xy table. Can anyone tell me where I could purchase the metal so that I could simply bolt the rails to a flat piece of steel, insert a brass shim for adjusting width etc...

I tried to find stuff like this on grainger and McMaster... I guess I don't know what to call it. I need to move about a foot, and be fairly precise.


Tom Eldredge, Trustee


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