buy parts in europe

Hi,

I'm Kurt, i'm new here.
I did help build a reprap (which is not fully working yet) at the foam workshop.
I would like to start building one on my own also.
Now i was wondering if there's a possibility to buy the part from the shop somewhere in Europe aswell?
Is there also a possibility to buy the printed parts or the moulded parts, i've read about?

thanks,

Kurt

Hi Kurt,

... i'm waiting too, until the 'english connection' start working and i can order the extruder-parts or some other stuff here ...

If you're from germany, then you can maybe hop into the german RepRap-usergroup and post your status and interests?

It seems actually, that the local groups are a bit of idling ...

Viktor

Probably for the best. Do you really want to dig through a bunch of regional forums to see what people have thought up?
Probably best for connecting locally, then watching for new posts, new local reprappers.
In my opinion.

Hi Sean,

... the basic-forum is the very best place, to communicate and interchange ideas - i'm a bit curious about the local groups too, if it would change something or bring a sort of localisation or 'dissolving' in the community?

But maybe it's a try to allow different languages in the local groups, as i know some people, which are interested in the thematics, but didn't speak and understand enough english, to communicate properly ...

Viktor

Viktor,

Good point on the differing languages. I often forget that others don't speak english. Kinda ethno-centric of me. Sorry.

Demented

That's not going to change unless someone wants to do digest versions of the "best" conversations and forks for their native tongue...or until babelfish gets a lot better.

That's gonna be awhile then. On both counts!

Hi Sean,

... after reading all Harry-Potter-books in english and some months reading and posting in the forum i'm merely comfortable with english now

On the other side i have some friends in germany, which are on smilar paths with repstrapping and 3D-fabbing, but didn't stick to reprap or fab@home, as they didn't feel comfortable enough.

Maybe a sort of interchanging/translating of good points and ideas can work?

But for me it's to much sort of a fulltime-job, so i think to start a 'local/private'-section, from which i sometimes can transfer information from and to reprap ...

Viktor

Vik,

Your friends are very welcome to post their work here; we're interesting in seeing what folk are up to, and are also willing to host friendly not-exactly-reprap-but-still-very-interesting projects. For example Forrest Higgs's machine uses some very different approaches, and so on.

By 'local/private', do you mean in one of the fora here, or elsewhere?

Hi Sebastien,

... i'll do my very best

There are some professionals in CNC-milling and enthusiasts, trying to start 3D-fabbing for dental applications and such sort of things, it can stay a while, until they're activated ...

As 'local/private' i meant my private connections, here we interchange per email and PN, i'll set them on the reprap and hope, some would start interfering ...

Viktor

thanks, for the replies.
I think i'll have to be patient a bit more.

I'm from Belgium and apart from the people at fo.am, i don't know of anyone else working on a reprap.
I also am used to working with people using englisch as main language, but i can very good imagine that people would be more comfortable using their own language.

I probably better focus on making the extruder at foam work, than start a different machine at my own.

Kurt

Want me to create a forum for Belgium and/or your home town? It's a minute's work, and you might find some neighbors who are interested. You may be able to organize a meetup or find some local suppliers.