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    doesn't 80/20 have stuff with slots already extruded into it?

    shits expensive sure, but it is the design easy button sometimes.
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    Even if 80/20 were in my budget (there are chinese knockoffs, after all), I've looked through their catalog already and didn't see anything that quite fit my application.
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    Surely just buy the tube then find a steel fabricator in your area that can slot it? It would be a 5min job with the right machines.
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    Having a hard time finding someone willing to put the setup time into it.

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    hydrogen plasma harnessed by germany: http://www.iflscience.com/physics/ge...ma-world-first

    and the USA falls farther behind in basic scientific research because of short sighted and anti-science politicians.
    social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

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    think that was supposed to go into OT as I do not see how it relates to his problem lol
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    you are correct ... lol
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    Maybe can choose this https://steelpurchase.com/steel-supply/
    a lot steel grade can be supply, including aisi 4140 round bar steel, p20 steel, 1.2311 steel and etc.
    But I do not know the price

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    Necromancy... this project was 4 years ago. Executed, torn down, done.

    Good lord I would have done it differently knowing what I know now.

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    Tell us the details of how it worked out and how it could be done better as long as someone brought the thread up from the dead.

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