case for GTA04 with 3D-printing?

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Wed Jul 27 14:39:37 CEST 2011


Am 27.07.2011 um 14:32 schrieb Patryk Benderz:

> Dnia 2011-07-27, śro o godzinie 14:13 +0200, David Lanzendörfer pisze:
>>> regarding your last sentence, what other 3d printer you would build/buy
>>> now?
>> Well. A friend of mine and I came up with the idea of linear actuators
>> built by a RepRap.
>> http://wiki.the-leviathan.ch/index.php/Linear_Actuator%28Printed%29
>> 
>> It would allow an effective reduction of costs too additionally
>> to the increased precision caused by the smaller steps.
> Thanks for the info. In the meantime I have found some commercial, thus
> expensive, printers like this one:
> http://pp3dp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=5&Itemid=37

That one looks interesting. 0.2mm precision isn't that bad. And it is definitively
at the lower end of the commercial price range (which ends at half a million).

-- hns


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