I made a good bit of progress on rail covers this weekend. Im hand-gluing some prototypes. For these to work they do require the X gantry beam to be lifted 1 inch on risers. Other than that, they should be plug and play with the stock machine. They attach to the Y castings and rails with some bolt on plastic parts, also nearly complete. In the current design, the rail covers ride on two pieces of 0.5x1.0" aluminum angle, which will suspend them so they don’t sag onto the ball screws.
If there’s interest perhaps we can set up a group buy for some better made covers from a Chinese manufacturer, using my drawings. They would likely cost about $50 per cover (so $200 for the Y axis) without any bulk discount, and not including attachment components, which can be 3D printed.
