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Lift Plates and Pulleys

On Saturday I attended the Model Engineering Show at Sandown Park, and one of the items I picked up was a 150mm square sheet of 2mm Aluminium sheet to make the Z lift plates from. In reality I only needed a strip about 46x120mm to make 4 lift plates from, but it never hurts to have…

Cost comparisons

Here are the rest of the parts printed in black PLA, all of the items that require 606 bearings have them installed and secured with M3x10 screws. Cost of the printed parts: Filament Cost Total Part # Description (mm) (cm3) (£) Qty (£) B17005 Z Lift Plate 1939.6 4.7 0.066 7 0.465 B17007 Limit Switch…

Rotational axis parts

Bart Dring provides all the details of the rotational axis to his Buildlog.net laser cutter here. Unfortunately for me he only supplies the detail for the parts in the STEP file available on the Wiki. Don’t get me wrong STEP files are potentially one of the best ways of supplying 3D information, however I don’t currently…