Parts for homebrew configs

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨phx@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨3dprinting@lemmy.world⁩

Can anyone recommend a good place to get parts for a homebrew system (available to Canada, at a reasonable price).

Full disclosure, I’m actually looking to build a large 3D scanning system but in terms of movement of the camera heads, I’ve been looking at my printer and thinking that it could use a similar configuration though on a slightly larger scale (rails, with a wheeled+track system for horizontal and large spiraled cylinder for vertical) , but I have no idea where to source these sort of parts.

Any ideas?

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snota@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Voron allow you to configure a printer and the provide a spreadsheet suggesting the sources for buying the parts. They aren’t region specific but most of the vendors are multinational.

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nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Spool3D has a fair assortment of printer parts, although I don’t know if they have exactly what you need. They’re in Calgary. I’ve ordered from them once, although it was just filament samples, and got everything in a reasonable amount of time.

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- phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is pretty much exactly what I read looking for. Thanks!
  
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IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Have you ever seen anything like this? There’s no need for a massive beefy frame, all you need is a jig to rotate your subject relative to the camera. You can do this with a fixed camera while rotating the subject around two axis or you can rotate the subject around one axis and the camera around another.

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- phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah I was looking at that, but I’m looking for something that scales fairly large (human bodies +) and kinda feel that a vertical track with maybe a rotating pedestal would work best
  
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Alfiegerner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I stumbled upon local (in NZ) maker sites by searching for the relevant components, e.g. stepper motors 20x20 extrusion etc.

Using site:NZ in google for local searches for me, maybe site:ca for you?

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shitescalates@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m wondering the same, but for the US. I ordered from banggood in years back, but it was hit or miss.

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