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Re: Recommendations for purchases
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Originally Posted by R.C.
Printing spacers is really a waste of a 3D printer, as you can buy spacers much cheaper than it takes to make them on a 3D printer. You could make them on a lathe even cheaper.
If you wondering where to get spacers from, McMaster sells a really nice set of plastic spacers that we dye black (stolen from 973). Really helps putting together a robot and saves a ton of time/money.
A 3D printer IMO is best used for low stress hard to find/get/make parts. Its also great for crazy pot mounts, plastic gears that are not taking load. etc...
-RC
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I did not know mcmaster had those, that would have been nice to know. But even if we did get them we would have had to machine them down still, we had some waky heights on those spacers. but yah ill have to remember that for next year.
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