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I own a small machine shop and I was thinking of making
a limited run of 10 out of 6061.
Anyone interested for 40 dollars a piece?
That would be without the hardware
I am making a few myself. Are you using a plastic one now?
Not at the moment I printed it out and
just thought about machining it while I have everything torn apart.
Do you own a cnc mill and cnc lathe?
These are already sold
These are already sold
Do you know how much they sell them for?
Definitely not 40 dollars a piece plus it doesn't mount directly to your solidoodle.
This is my VMC it's a Matsuura MC-500V2
This is my CNC lathe it's a YAM ck2
I just recently painted it red however I don't have the updated pics on me
Just curious, are you considering a metal version because you have tighter tolerances on your machine? Perhaps it would be equally suitable to be machine a plastic on that machine for this tool.
My vertical cnc mill can hold .0002 of an inch if done correctly and my cnc lathe can hold .0003 inch.
However holding that tolerance in plastic can be a pain depending on the part and depending on
the plastic thermally it will expand much more then aluminum. I plan on making an all metal solidoodle 3 replacing the parts while I play with it so I can hold a 50 micron layer height minimum with my solidoodle.
If I get an order of 10 I will send 2n2r5 the all metal version for free
Me I'm interested to have the "all the S3 part in metal" too. but right now I'm broke...
I just bought the S3 like a month ago so...
Need time to repop some €...
Thanks for the answer, I was curious on that one 
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Interesting. I had to vote that Im interested in a cheaper solution, but I appreciate that you're proposing this. Perhaps you'll get the preorders to make it worth your while.
Thanks for the response Tomek
Have any for sale still? I'd be interested in a set!
I'm going to be working on them this week
so I'll pm you when I have them done.
I'm really interested. Would it be pretty much a turn key solution? I'd hate to get something and then find I needed to source other bits and bobs to get it installed.
What sort of price are you looking at for replacing all parts with aluminium?
I would love to include all the bearings and screws needed however unless I had a large order it wouldn't be very cost effective and would cost me more out of my pocket as well as yours.
I will end up making the all metal replacement parts in the next month but it will be a very limited quantity of 10 if I don't receive more orders when I put it up.
If I receive less then 10 order probably around 150 if I receive more then most likely 130 but it could
be cheaper once I run the numbers.
The threadless ball screw part will be 40 dollars plus shipping
I guess as long as there is a complete list of 'extras' provided in advance so all the bits can be bought.
I don't think I'm in a position to buy anything just yet, Christmas is approaching and my GF might actually want a gift that isnt printed
Id be interested in a all metal set of parts if your doing them. I have a SD2 but im sure I could get a bare frame and change the rods for longer ones to make it larger. Are the metal replacements going to use the linear recirc bearings instead of the bushings?
I guess as long as there is a complete list of 'extras' provided in advance so all the bits can be bought.
I don't think I'm in a position to buy anything just yet, Christmas is approaching and my GF might actually want a gift that isnt printed
I could put together another one of these which is what I did for the printed version. It should take you to a wishlist that I put together for Amazon and McMaster so all you have to do is add to cart and purchase. I have had a few people use this already.
http://www.mcmaster.com/order/rcvRtedOr … lnktyp=lnk
http://amzn.com/w/2IPMDMP8UQQ3W
Thank you 2n2r5
Saved me the trouble of creating the list
no problem.
Techbuilder,
Have you reached your 10 piece goal? I may be interested as I'm looking at building a larger version of the SD using aluminum extrusions for the frame and lawsy's printed parts to elongate the x-y. The bed may be an issue, but I'll deal with that when I have to. Having the z-screw would also give me a spare if something happened to the current SD2.
Not quite yet
would you like one as well?
At your price, how could I say no?
Take that as a yes.
Techbuilder im interested in one.
Ok no problem
So far I have confirmed
2n2r5
diyengineer
cckens
innovate
and my self
So 5 down have 5 more available
once there gone I won't be making anymore unless there is another order of 10.
Let me know if your interested
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