How to join if you'd like to donate a machine or a set of parts

Add the text "[[Category:Loaner Program]]" to a RUG wiki page or to your user page to add your loaner set to this page.

Suggested Guidelines: What you do with your set

There are not a lot of rules, because we already have enough complexity to deal with.

You build a Mendel, and make a new set of plastic parts. This set is the loaner set.

When someone has their electronics ready, some plastic filament, and has all their other Vitamins (steel rods, fasteners, etc.) ready, you loan them the loaner set. Then you help them build it, or they go and build it, and so on, and they make a machine, and make a new set.

Then they bring that new set back to you, or maybe they are now "Official Keeper of the Loaner Set" for your RUG (however you like to work it). This is the new loaner set.

Questions

Who Donates Loaner Parts and Loaner Machines?

You do! Or rather the community does.

Sounds cool!!!! How do I get a loaner set, dudez???

If you are an active member of a RUG (RepRap User Group) and wish to take advantage of this approach, please contact Jmarsden or Sebastien Bailard. You may have to be patient.

What if someone doesn't bring back a loaner set?

Make a new set and charge the next borrower GBP40 to cover the cost of the plastic. Or get someone else in the RUG to do so.

What if I'm worried that someone won't bring back a loaner set?

You figure it out. You could request a large deposit, ~GBP400 or so. Then give it back when you get the loaner set back. Or do something else. Or have someone else be in charge of the loaner set.

Do I have to make two loaner sets and ship one to another RUG?

Please do if you would like to, it will help a lot. The previous person who checked out your set probably created two loaner sets rather than just one so we strongly suggest you do so as well, to give back to the commons.

Who makes all the other rules about what I do with my loaner set?

You and your RUG keep track of this.