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hi
i dont have a 3D printer nor do i know anyone with one, i see JD's garage sell the printed bits for £72 as i dont know how much the materials would be to print them even if i had a printer im considering just buying them, do you think £72 is reasonable, sounds ok to me when you look at the time involved ?
i dont have a 3D printer nor do i know anyone with one, i see JD's garage sell the printed bits for £72 as i dont know how much the materials would be to print them even if i had a printer im considering just buying them, do you think £72 is reasonable, sounds ok to me when you look at the time involved ?
You'll likely need to add import duty/VAT to that price, plus you've not included carriage. If the parcel gets caught for customs, then it's likely to be around £130 delivered.
If you want to send me over the stl's, along with what they recommend for infill, I could probably do them cheaper as I've got a couple 3D printers not doing much just now.
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I've spent £32 on filament so far on 2 rolls of PETG and might go into a third given my track record of failures so if it was £72 all in that would be a no brainer - but as mentioned above the extra costs would be a consideration.
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No problem, although it may not be a great help....the plate I already had, SHS from my local stockholder (Alexander's in Stirling) and the fasteners were from Amazon and mostly Ebay - which was actually the best pricing for the small quantities involved, according my my searches anyway. Bearings from Amazon.
I already had one of the stepper drivers and the motor and driver for the Y axis came from Amazon.
So basically Chinese kit from American distributors. I just hope the steel was milled in the UK (by a Chinese or Indian company).
im still thinking about it, for once all the stars are aligning with this as i can get them here with no shipping, my pal emigrated to the USA, Chattanooga to be precise and he has just bought me an adapter plate to convert a 350 chevy to 4wd for one of my other projects, when it turns up there the plan was he was going to send it on to me and im thinking he can just drop the printed parts in the same box, they wont be heavy compared to the cast iron plate i already have to pay for anyway and the printed parts are free shipping within the usa so should arrive with him at no cost, he can label the box up as old metal plate and plastic parts with a low $ value, it all sounds a plan but best laid plans of mice and men and all that
Good job it wasn't on the FedEx plane that crashed off their runway last week. Small World
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Looking back it was actually almost all Ebay for the fixings
right had a quick look around amazon and came up with these, this is a first look and im sure i can find better deal, but first is this shopping list correct ?
so theres about £175 there plus the £25 for the plans, maybe £75 for the printed parts, it would appear doable for the £500 they claim
right onto the bearings next....................
so theres about £175 there plus the £25 for the plans, maybe £75 for the printed parts, it would appear doable for the £500 they claim
right onto the bearings next....................
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Just had a quick look, there's a fair bit you can shave off that, will send over alternatives at lunchtime
Just had a quick look, there's a fair bit you can shave off that, will send over alternatives at lunchtime
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Here goes (no responsibility for any of my suggestions mind and make sure they're not on the slow boat etc.)
Arduino - a clone will be fine, eg.
Timing belt/pulley - don't have the spec with me but check the width, think that's too narrow
Power supply - not bought yet but think I'll go for this
TB6600 - I'd just go for the cheapest, try ebay too. Same for the other driver
Stepper - think you put the smaller one in twice, the Y axis needs a bigger unit, 3Nm I think. Again I just went cheapest, it was from Amazon.
Hope that helps
thank you will have a look at all those, you spotted my deliberate typo there, i meant this for the bigger stepper motor lol
and you are correct the timing belt is to narrow at 6mm i need the 8mm version
thanks again for your help
although re reading the specs on the stepper motor it says 48v, i need to recheck
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It's not my field, but 24v will be fine as long as the power supply can provide enough current - the driver will chop it up and spit it out just how the motor requires it. I think that is the technical definition.
