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Unread 07-01-2008, 08:40
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Re: Forklift

We did a forklift last year, also using 80/20 and delrin slides from the 80/20 catalog. It didn't work too well, it got stuck a lot and we needed a lot of power to go up, and got jammed on the way down (gravity pulled it down)

I'd recommend finding some other rail and bearing block system. We've used a great system before, unfortunately we don't remember the supplier. It worked great in.... '05? for moving those tetras.