Precut Acrylic for McWire Cartesian Bot
Posted by T3Aguy
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Precut Acrylic for McWire Cartesian Bot August 09, 2009 09:34PM |
Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 17 |
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Re: Precut Acrylic for McWire Cartesian Bot August 30, 2009 03:16PM |
Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 186 |
Hi Joe.
Many people have asked for parts.
Unfortunately, at the moment, it takes considerable effort and time to print off a complete set of parts for a reprap. Most of those with a working reprap are also working hard on their own projects and maintaining their own repraps, so have limited time and effort. This means that it often takes a personal connection to get the process started.
However, there are several sources of the parts:
You can buy a full kit (a slightly different version) from Makerbot:
[www.makerbot.com]
You can buy a Full kit from BitsFromBytes (uk)
[bitsfrombytes.com]
You can get the parts made from a 3-d printing service like Ponoko:
You can get parts lasercut by Ponoko:
Try and find a local lasercutting/3-d printing service and get the parts made locally.
Try and get together with a local school/college/university as they often have production facilities, like lasercutters.
If you have access to a CNC milling machine or 3-d positioning robot, get/build an extruder and mount that on the existing robot.
Or - the most work (but a lower cost) is to build a low-tech 3-d platform yourself and print out your own parts. This is called a 'RepStrap' solution - there are some basic plans, but they are often adapted to what is available or easily obtainable in your area. Check out the Builder's wiki:
[objects.reprap.org]
There are several RepStrap blogs, describing progress building RepStrap machines.
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
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Reprapping blog and other rants: [renoirsrants.blogspot.com]
My Reprap: [sites.google.com]
Many people have asked for parts.
Unfortunately, at the moment, it takes considerable effort and time to print off a complete set of parts for a reprap. Most of those with a working reprap are also working hard on their own projects and maintaining their own repraps, so have limited time and effort. This means that it often takes a personal connection to get the process started.
However, there are several sources of the parts:
You can buy a full kit (a slightly different version) from Makerbot:
[www.makerbot.com]
You can buy a Full kit from BitsFromBytes (uk)
[bitsfrombytes.com]
You can get the parts made from a 3-d printing service like Ponoko:
You can get parts lasercut by Ponoko:
Try and find a local lasercutting/3-d printing service and get the parts made locally.
Try and get together with a local school/college/university as they often have production facilities, like lasercutters.
If you have access to a CNC milling machine or 3-d positioning robot, get/build an extruder and mount that on the existing robot.
Or - the most work (but a lower cost) is to build a low-tech 3-d platform yourself and print out your own parts. This is called a 'RepStrap' solution - there are some basic plans, but they are often adapted to what is available or easily obtainable in your area. Check out the Builder's wiki:
[objects.reprap.org]
There are several RepStrap blogs, describing progress building RepStrap machines.
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
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Reprapping blog and other rants: [renoirsrants.blogspot.com]
My Reprap: [sites.google.com]
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Re: Precut Acrylic for McWire Cartesian Bot December 18, 2009 12:56PM |
Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 11 |
A good place to get it lasercut in the US is Bigblue Saw: www.bigbluesaw.com.
Although you will have to countersink the holes yourself, it's only ablut $50.
Although you will have to countersink the holes yourself, it's only ablut $50.
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Re: Precut Acrylic for McWire Cartesian Bot December 18, 2009 06:11PM |
Hi. I'm the owner of Big Blue Saw.
Which designs are most commonly used for building RepStraps? I see a bunch of options out there, and I want to make sure that ordering parts is easy and cheap for everyone. We don't have the publicity machine that Ponoko does, so we have to try to build a better service instead.
Which designs are most commonly used for building RepStraps? I see a bunch of options out there, and I want to make sure that ordering parts is easy and cheap for everyone. We don't have the publicity machine that Ponoko does, so we have to try to build a better service instead.
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