In the early days of 3D printers, most builds used smooth rods and bearings that rode on them. But these days, printers are shipping with either V-slot extrusions with Delrin wheels or linear rails.

In the early days of FDM 3D printing, the RepRap project spawned all sorts of weird and and wonderful designs. In the video after the break [dizekat] gives us a throwback to those times with the ...

Key to success: Rails built to keep out contaminants. Stretch a carpet an extra inch, save $100,000. That was what a manufacturer of ready-to-mount automotive carpeting was trying to accomplish with a ...

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 ...

Three new sizes of BGS linear rail systems for brushless linear DC motors (BLDCs) were added to the Haydon-Kerk 24-Hour Express Store. The single- or double-stacked BGS04, BGS06, and BGS08 linear ...

Redesigned for use with overweight patients, an imaging table required rails with a high load capacity and extended stroke. A line of rails offered by a linear motion ...

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 ...

LG Motion has been offering a quick turnaround service on cut-to-length rails. The service covers Monorail sizes 15, 20, 25, 30 and precision linear rails with various carriage types and accessories.