Motorized & Automatic Plasma Cutting Linear Guide

https://youtu.be/aVa39H2t4Qo
Using a 12V car wiper motor, I decided to make an automatic track for cutting steel sheets.
The elements used are:
12V wiper motor (I think Volkswagen)
Toothed belt 10 T5
2 gears 27-T5-10
4 Linear Shaft End Bracket SK16
2 Linear bearing in housing SMAG16UU
2 Stainless guide shaft fi16 h6 130 cm long
2 Self-aligning bearing KP08-8 mm

Interestingly.
The specification of my plasma cutter allows for a quality cut of 6 mm. In the video you can see how thanks to this tool I cut 10 mm sheet metal.

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Beauty. Can you put little felt wipers on either side of those linear bearings to help keep some of the crud out? They're probably going to get crunchy with all the slag.

Nice project. How did you join the belt?

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Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

Nice project. How did you join the belt?

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The belt was clamped, see 6:43 on the video

Duh, of course, Thanks.