Talk:Mendel assembly data sheet

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Isn't it time this sheet was updated to represent the range of products that are available now under the Mendel banner?

What with Laser Cut Acrylic and Plywood, Aluminum, and even bandsaw-cut wooden versions, 4-6 separate branches on the electronics, Different sizes, and different Z axis changes, Bushings and bearings, New developers, are getting snowed under finding the best support locations for their own selected version or remix or whatever.

I recently got handed the "Wooden Mendel" design, by someone who thought they were being helpful while I was building TechZones Plywood Mendel. The Laser-cut mendel page, hardly pays even lip-service to it, and TechZones page is as yet under-developed. A central spread-sheet like this, needs a serious attempt at updating from time to time, as even more different types of mendels are created during the prototype stage.

At some point you are going to have a "Family" of Mendel products, each with their own particular best use, or stage in the "Replication" process, and no way to tell as a customer what the differences are, unless you update the spreadsheet to incorporate more than one, or create similar spreadsheets for each.