Talk:RepRap Buyers' Guide
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Contents
- 1 How to get included into the RepRap Buyers' Guide
- 2 various pages that list sellers
- 3 Please add Metamáquina 3D as a brazillian supplier of RepRap kits and fully assembled printers.
- 4 Hi ! Two companies I see missing :
- 5 Please adjust entry for EckerTech
- 6 How to support developers even better
- 7 Incorrect Information
How to get included into the RepRap Buyers' Guide
It's simple: please add your entry here in a new line. Take care to set to set your country right and also to put checkmarks (only) where they fit. Admins watch this talk page and will take the entry over to the main page after a review.
In case you aren't allowed to add external links (you'll notice that), put a space between the slashes of the link, like http:/ /example.com . The Admin will fix them when moving the entry over to the main page.
Vendor | Loc. |
Full Printer Kits
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Printed Parts Kits
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Electronics Kits
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Extruder/Hotends
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Developers of ... | Reviews and notes | |
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Example Shop | AQ | ✓ | <your genuine development(s), if any, here> | |||||
[http:/ /www.edistri.be/eshop eDistri] | Belgium | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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various pages that list sellersThere seem to be a bunch of wiki pages that list places where people can buy stuff related to building a RepRap (raw materials and "vitamins") or a RepStrap.
Should we merge some of these pages together? Or put an explanation on one of these pages that lists all the pages why each one exists? --DavidCary 03:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC) Hey guys! a bunch of useful information disappearred just now. Specifically, McMaster Carr entry had links to two specific steel rods. They were the cheapest in my area and they delivered them the same day. Are these not suitable anymore? --user: Prof_Braino Sept 17 Please add Metamáquina 3D as a brazillian supplier of RepRap kits and fully assembled printers.Please add Metamáquina 3D as a brazillian supplier of RepRap kits and fully assembled printers.
Hi ! Two companies I see missing :
Thanks ! --Arthurwolf 11:54, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Another admin, please chime in. Thanks. --Traumflug 20:19, 14 June 2013 (UTC) Please adjust entry for EckerTechPlease adjust entry for EckerTech. We provide full kits and we also developed the EckerTech all metal hot end with active cooling in 2009 and the EckerTech hobbed bolt in 2009. Thanks!
How to support developers even betterFollowing the discussion about TrinityLabs above, I'd appreciate a discussion on how to support RepRap developers even better. The "Developer of..." column is new in this revision of the guide and meant to distinguish shops just copying openly available developments (I tend to call then "copy shops") from those who also do active development for the RepRap community. Now User:ArthurWolf has brought up shops which don't do their own development, but "support" development. I guess, "support" means something like paying a fee per product sold or ordering shop supplies not at a manufacturer, but from the developer. As shops supporting development are undoubtly more valueable for the community, maybe even essential for the community to survive as an independent one, how can we get this into the picture? What's the measurement to avoid checkmark hunters (like e.g. donating $0.10 per product sold, just to get the check mark) versus highlighting noticeable support? Can we perhaps call out one of the support strategies to be a recommended standard for RepRap shops? --Traumflug 20:18, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps as a first step in this direction, each row could name the developer(s) who designed the products they are selling? For example, if a shop sold the original, unmodified Darwin, that row would credit Adrian Bowyer. More recent machines would typically credit at least 3 people (the mechanical structure designer, the electronics designer, and the software programmer) and previous designers whose work they built on. --DavidCary 17:57, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Incorrect InformationLooking to buy a full kit, I'm looking through the list and have found that some of these sites that are listed as selling full kits only sell partial kits or do not sell kits at all. The vendors with issues (I only looked through the US vendors) are:
Alanbly (talk) 23:05, 6 October 2013 (PDT)
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