Extruded Aluminum

This page has been flagged as containing duplicate material that T-Slot also attempts to cover.
These pages should be merged such that both pages do not attempt to cover the duplicate topics.

Please do not add to this page. (It is slightly overcrowded as it is.)

This Page Contains multiple RepRap development projects and should be split up. Each individual project/design/improvement should have its own development page within an encompassing category.

Aluminum is one of the more popular frame materials.

kinds of extruded aluminum

T-Slot is one of the most popular categories of extruded aluminum -- VSlot, fischertechnik aluminum beams, 80/20 beams, MakerBeam, OpenBeam, MicroRAX -- see T-Slot for more details.

aluminum L rails: Doboz

MakerSlide is an open source aluminum extrusion with a built-in V-rail linear bearing system. The Deltic3D, ORD bot, Freedeepee, CNC Router, etc. all use MakerSlide as part of their drive train.

• official site: http://www.inventables.com/technologies/makerslide
• "Kickstarter: MakerSlide Open Source Linear Bearing System"

YesRail, apparently designed for the P2f RepStrap, is a rail system "based on Open Rail and MakerSlide".

OpenRail: Linear V rail universal mounts to t-slot extrusion

• http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120610-open-rail-an-open-source-universal-linear-rail-system.html
• http://openbuildspartstore.com/

aluminum L rails

• Doboz

RobotDigg

• http://www.robotdigg.com/product/225/2020-Aluminum-Extrusion-in-Lengths

EZ Tube

• https://eztube.com

Telescoping

• https://alcobrametals.com/products/telescoping-tube/telescoping-aluminum-square-tube/6005a-t6-telescoping-square-tube

Makeblock: typically used for small desktop models

• open-source modular extruded aluminum system
• http://makeblock.cc/
• Wired: "Robotics Hacker Erects Open Source ‘Lego for Adults’"
• Kickstarter: "Makeblock : Next Generation of Construct Platform"

Early version of Eiffel, showing the grid beam TriLap joints. (The beams should have through-holes repeating along the side.)

grid beam: square beams with a line of holes: typically used for furniture and street signs

• Eiffel mentions "pre-drilled square beams".
• square tube construction techniques
• The square metal tubes with round holes in the side pictured in "Pull Yourself Together, Bot!" look a *lot* like grid beam -- would "real" grid beam work just as well?
• http://www.gridbeamers.com/
• http://gridbeam.biz/
• http://www.alliedtube.com/sign-support/traffic-sign-posts/telespar-square.asp
• http://www.mcmaster.com/#steel-structural-tubing/=49tu63

Makeralot

• 2020 T Slotted Aluminium Extrusion
• 2020 V Slotted Aluminium Extrusion
• 2040 V Slotted Aluminium Extrusion
• 2060 V Slotted Aluminium Extrusion
• 2080 V Slotted Aluminium Extrusion

Extruded rectangular aluminum tubes:

• "Parametrically Designed XY Motion Stage", apparently part of the thesis "Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines" by Ilan Ellison Moyer.

square metal tubes, that later have holes drilled only where bolts are needed, as in T-Rep 0 (the progenitor) and Strapzilla and TeeBot <flickr>3951997454|none</flickr> <flickr>5084805984|right</flickr>