Extruded Aluminum

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This page has been flagged as containing duplicate material that T-Slot also attempts to cover.
These pages should be merged such that both pages do not attempt to cover the duplicate topics.

Please do not add to this page. (It is slightly overcrowded as it is.)

This Page Contains multiple RepRap development projects and should be split up. Each individual project/design/improvement should have its own development page within an encompassing category.

Aluminum is one of the more popular frame materials.

XCbot

Flexlink XC Bot

See XCbot.

SamBot

ExtrudedSamBot

This image via EMCRepStrap. This is SamBot, Probably a metric extruded aluminum machine. See Extruded Aluminum#Metric for more details.

T-Slot Based 3D Replicator

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See T-Rep.

This page is dedicated to the creation of a 3D Replicator with a frame based on T-slotted framing. Here is an excellent source of these materials: http://8020.net/T-Slot-1.asp

We feel that the desire to self replicate has been holding back the RepRap device from gaining wider acceptance and also attaining higher performance levels coupled with greater versatility. Ideally a T-Slot Replicator will be multi-tool enabled with support for FDM, Shape Deposition Manufacturing, CNC_Mill Spindles, Pick and Place and possibly other tools like lasers and Laser Cutters. We also would like to see more versatile and off the shelf solutions for the electronics as few are willing or capable of creating their own boards. Lastly, the software needs to be more plug and play so that less time is spent installing, configuring and tweaking. See also Development Pathway

If you are interested in this project, please share your thoughts and designs here.

Development Pathway

This page will eventually fork into a tree of different webpages. That will include SamBot, HydraBot, My Extruded Aluminum RepStrap, My Extruded Aluminum Laser Cutter, and so on. But right now, all the action is on this webpage.

Metric

kinds of extruded aluminum

aluminum L rails: Doboz

aluminum L rails

fischertechnik aluminum beams look similar to MakerBeam

fischertechnik: you can get extruded aluminum versions of some fischertechnik parts

80/20 beams: typically used for machines larger than a refrigerator

MakerBeam: typically used for small desktop models

OpenBeam

Early version of Eiffel, showing the grid beam TriLap joints. (The beams should have through-holes repeating along the side.)

grid beam: square beams with a line of holes: typically used for furniture and street signs

MicroRAX

Extruded rectangular aluminum tubes:

square metal tubes, that later have holes drilled only where bolts are needed, as in T-Rep 0 (the progenitor) and Strapzilla <flickr>3951997454|none</flickr> <flickr>5084805984|right</flickr>