[Lab] laser mirror holders

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

I'm in Bayshore... My house and workshop are a bit of a disaster area lately
though lol... I think my wife would shoot me if I invited someone in right
now :)

Either way, we could meet quickly to discuss your options, if you have some
hand sketches or something of the parts, and bring along some samples, and
dimensions, I could mock something up tonight/tomorrow, and we could discuss
it more at the faire... your right in that there might not be a ton of time,
but I was surprised how easily the design/testing cycle works now that I
have rapid prototyping capability... Small parts take 20min to print or
less, so I can easily whip up a design in an hour or less, print it, and
take an iterative design approach to something that is normally much more
monolithic... It wastes a bit more material, but since material costs are so
low for the plastic filament, it's totally worth the agility gained in the
design process...

Let me know what your thoughts are and we can talk about it.

I'm a bit busy tonight and tomorrow, as I also have some paperwork to catch
up on for my home business, and some other todo items to deal with (I've
been multitasking between print and other stuff) but I could probably afford
an hour or so either tonight or tomorrow between 8pm and 10pm to discuss
options. Otherwise we can talk at the faire and meet up sometime following
that if that works better.

Even an email with some sketches/dimensions and pics of parts and so on
might let me mock up something quickly if that's preferable as well.

Thanks!

- Paul

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:

>
> I would think that there wouldn't be much time to do it during the Maker
> Faire. The printing would be easy but the design (and any experiments) would
> take a while.
>
> I think the plastic cost is cool.
>
> Where are you? If you want to try some test runs, I could drop by if you
> want.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There will be several 3d printers at the maker faire, I would bet you
>> could have mirror holders made at the maker faire with enough
>> bartering/negotiating lol... 1" holding brackets wouldn't take long to
>> print, it would mostly be design/testing time that would consume the most
>> effort...
>>
>> I'd be fine with printing them for you at maker faire for cost of plastic
>> used (which would be minimal, hell I would likely do it for free depending
>> on the volume of plastic). provided we have the time/resources to design the
>> parts. I'm sure a lot of the other guys will have more Industrial Design
>> experience than I do though.
>>
>> Anyway, point being there will be at minimum 5 3d printers, and possibly
>> as many as 7-8 at the maker faire. So between all of them I'm sure your
>> parts could get done ;)
>>
>> Also there is talk about kickstarting the RepRap Loaner program at the
>> ottawa Maker Faire, so we will be trying to build a reprap mendel at the
>> faire, and use it as a community loaner model.
>>
>> I've been working on printing parts to have at the maker fair in the
>> evenings this week (just for examples) so if you have a design in mind, or
>> some info, perhaps I could run a few off as tests tonight or tomorrow, and
>> bring them along, get a bit of a head start.
>>
>> Let me know.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm now wanting to make mirror holders. The mirrors are 1". I need two of
>>> them. They should have a tilt adjust.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> The artengine makerbot? What is the status of that? What is the procedure
>>> for booking it?
>>>
>>> I'd like to try and have them done before Guy and I are finished making
>>> the mounting brackets for the laser tube.
>>>
>>> Here are some mirror holders on ebay:
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Thorlabs-1-Optic-Mounts-Holder-Laser-Mirror-Lens-/160361359773?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255648299d#ht_1115wt_869
>>>
>>>
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