Metal Mendel

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Metal Mendel RepStrap

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Description
efforts towards a metal Mendel RepStrap
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Working Notes

Project Lead(s): swighton et. al. Wiki-maintainers and helpers:

Photos and Drawings

Note

Metal/Mendel is cross-fertile with Eiffel and is probably part RBS. It's one big whirling gyre of intercompatible design concepts. Forum thread: http://dev.forums.reprap.org/read.php?4,29852,29852

Files

File:Mendel Drawings.zip

Drawings

The files in Mendel_Drawings.zip are a bunch of pdfs. We need to render the pdfs as .png type image files (using image magick or pdftk?) and embed them in a series of pages. E.g. x_axis_belt_clamp.pdf is a pdf in the zip, we need x_axis_belt_clamp.png, and then either have Mendel/Drawings be one long image dump or have it be a list of pages like: Mendel/x_axis_belt_clamp

Units!

Inches

Note: swighton's original drawings are in Inches.

Metric

We will want a translation into metric for people using metric tooling.

Tooling

Description of tooling requirements.

Process

The process is depends pretty heavily on having access to a machine shop and a bunch of metal: if you are using swighton's drawings, then you can probably get by with a bandsaw, drill press, sander, and miller.

To make each part, you usually cut the stock aluminum (or whatever metal you're using) to size and drill the holes indicated by the drawings, with an occasional milled part.

Notes

Swighton's got a pretty good writeup, so he'll probably just copy it here.