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Step 1: Design the rail to how much material you'll need.
Step 2: Go to a steel place and purchase the material, some
may have minimum purchase before they deleiver
which might suck cuz steel usually comes in 24 and 40
foot lengths.
Step 3: Cut the material to your plans. To cut the steel, you
will want to idealy use a band saw with a metal blade
or a chop saw. Next best to those are pobably an
angle grinder with a cutting disk on it or if worse
comes to worse hack saws (if you think using a hack
saw sucks try being in my program where you have to
make this part for an old biplane that holds the
cables in place usuing only a hacksaw and files plus
high precision measureing tools and you have to get
each peice of the thing with in .010 of an inch, and
the main block of steel must have all perfect 90
angles)
Step 4: Weld that shit together, you'll prob need to find a
buddy that welds and buy him beer, but on the plus
side someone with a welder usually has the tools to
work with steel.
