80/20 sliders

[Creator Mat]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

You can also machine your own sliders out of Delrin on a milling machine.

If you have the capabilities I suggest you do this. The sliders from 8020 are very expensive ($40+ a piece). Plus it sounds cooler if you can say "ya we made these custom sliders ourselves".

[LLogan]

Pages 500-531 have everything you need.

Our team is using lots of 6730's. They are almost frictionless. Hope that helps.

[Mr_I]

Slightly more friction than other methods but definitely cheaper: We discovered this week that #35 chain can be "threaded" between two pieces of 8020, and can provide a rather smooth movement between them. We're investigating using a 4' tall piece of 8020 as the lifter track, and mounting a 1' long piece of 8020 to the chain, which would serve as the mount for the tube handler. By looping the chain around a pair of sprockets, we can pull the chain and move the mount almost 4' up or down.

Picture will follow if it works.

[ktress357]

Hi, I'm from team 357 and we did just this in 07. We molded a custom slide which we called jester glide. If you contact my team I'm sure we may be able to help you out.