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I don't have, nor have I ever seen the extended way bars? from Emco, but I made a replacement set of way bars from chromed 12mm linear guide rod, and cut them down to match the original way bars for the 1st Unimat. I've got a pair of 600mm long, 12mm? linear guide rods coming. Should be here Wednesday. I'm not going to be using the full length, I don't believe, but it won't hurt me to have a bit more stock for my pile, either. I believe I'll see if I can get 12" between centers. IIRC, I used 300mm linear guide rods for the stock-sized ways. Just using extended way bars hanging out loose at the end might be OK, but I knew where a cut down bed was, more or less, and it's on it's way, too. They're maybe not as rare as I thought, but they're not in production anymore, either, so didn't want to cut another one down. Photo I took of my SL after I fit the new way bars to it, and before I cut them down I could move the ends of the bars pretty easily. For just parking the tailstock, that's probably alright, but I'd like to be able to use it, if possible. Still might not work. As Andrei noted, the 12mm way bars aren't the most rigid things in the world.?

So we'll see if it's practical. And if not, I've got spiffy new way bars on the DB, as well, and it didn't cost me a great deal to figure things out.?

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