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  • The rods (a.k.a. tubes or poles) holding & guiding the quilt top / batting / backing fabric on Mary’s HQ Sixteen longarm quilting machine span the eleven feet of the table: The two end plates are 1/4 inch steel plate with four punched holes for the rods / tubes, which look remarkably like EMT. The…

    HQ Sixteen: Fabric Rod Bearings