Hi.
(Active) RepRapLtd: https://reprapltd.com/
(Active) RepRapForums: https://reprap.org/forum/ The mass of different sub forums looks organised but the down side is post in a quiet place and your post will go unanswered.
Discussion from Bowyer about the closure of RepRapPro (used to sell machine kits through RS): https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?340,610436,830486#msg-830486
£750 for three machines is tight. You'll probably be relying on Arduino Mega and RAMPs for that rather than the more recent 32 bit controllers.Searching for amd reconditioning second hand might help. If determined to get new the your best shot will be searching for a bill of materials and collecting the parts yourself.
RepRapLtd may be able to put together bundles for you. They are very helpful.
I could have a look at how long it would take me to print the parts in white PLA. I'm tuning PETG but it is not ready yet.
Regards,
Wesley.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, 22:38 J. R. Haigh <JRHaigh+ML.OSHUG@runbox.com wrote:
Hi, We at the Telford Makerspace (https://TelfordMaker.space ) are looking to get 2 or 3 RepRaps (https://RepRap.org ) with which to run workshops. We decided on getting a couple of RepRap Huxley Duos ( https://web.Archive.org/web/20160620213955/http://RepRapPro.com/documentatio... ), and materials and parts to build at least another Huxley Duo. Features of the Huxley Duo which appeal to us are:
• OSH and well-documented; • Cartesian-style filament printer; • dual-filament; • small and portable with a very sturdy frame; • cheap – 750£ will buy at least 3 of them; • repairable; interchangeable; modifyable; upgradable.
However, Andy D'Arcy Jewell and I could not find finer detailssuch as nozzle diameter or print resolution, and when we were looking to buy one, we found that all of the links that we tried are dead or discontinued, i.e. we could not find /any/ live link to a current retailer of the Huxley Duo. The RepRap Project somewhat feels like a ghost town. We'd like to know: • Why did RepRap Ltd. close? • What happened to the RepRap Project and its community? • Where we can get RepRap Huxley Duos and their parts from? I notice that there's a fairly recent email to the list, the one announcing the 68th OSHUG meeting, that suggests that RepRap is still current without any hint of demise: At 2018-07-10Tue21:58:59+01, Andrew Back sent:
[…] Yet engineering hasn't worked with the power of self replication much,
if at all, until now. This talk will be about the RepRap Project - an open-source project that has created humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine. It will examine the likely social and economic impacts of self-replicating technology, and draw parallels with a twelve-thousand-year-old industry that uses natural self-replicating machines, the industry without which we would all starve: farming.
- Adrian Bowyer holds a first degree and a PhD in engineering from
Imperial College. He was an academic engineer and mathematician at the University of Bath for 35 years, from where he retired in 2012 to become a director of RepRap Ltd., a company that sells RepRap machines and components, and that undertakes research and consultancy in RepRap-related projects. RepRap Ltd is an entirely open-source company, and all its designs, software and documentation are freely available to everyone. […]
The present tense implies that RepRap is still current. I sincerely hope so.
Best regards, James R. Haigh. -- Wealth doesn't bring happiness, but poverty brings sadness. https://wiki.FSFE.org/Fellows/JRHaigh Sent from NixOS with Claws Mail, using email subaddressing as an alternative to error-prone heuristical spam filtering. _______________________________________________ oshug mailing list oshug@oshug.org http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug