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*Stainless - [https://www.metricmetal.com/product/stainless-steel/round-bar-stainless-steel/stainless-steel-round-bar-17-4ph-tgp/] | |||
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*2017 year end - $2.6/ft for good stuff. [[File:rodquote.png|300px]] | *2017 year end - $2.6/ft for good stuff. [[File:rodquote.png|300px]] | ||
*More 2017 - $1.75/meter, but shipping is almost twice that. This is chrome plated but soft rod. $1.5/ft fo soft stuff. [[File:softrod.png|300px]] | *More 2017 - $1.75/meter, but shipping is almost twice that. This is chrome plated but soft rod. $1.5/ft fo soft stuff. [[File:softrod.png|300px]] | ||
Revision as of 23:43, 1 July 2020
USA
- Stainless - [1]
China 2017
- 2017 year end - $2.6/ft for good stuff.
- More 2017 - $1.75/meter, but shipping is almost twice that. This is chrome plated but soft rod. $1.5/ft fo soft stuff.
- $3/meter for chrome plated rods including sea freight, based on a 1 ton minimum order- $1/ft in bulk for good stuff.
Consumer
- $4/foot from Aliexpress - [2]
- $4.6/foot on amazon - [3]
- $10 for 1 meter - Folgertech - [4]
- Specifications included - [5]. $7.10 for 355 mm
- How about less hard rod and plastic bearings? See about IGUS plastic bearings - [6]
- Igus - $8/bearing - [7]
- Reddit thread - no consensus - [8]
- Igus external bearing dimensions are not the same - [9]
- This reddit includes comments on Lulzbot rods - [10]
- Press fit vs non-press fit IGUS - [11]
- Drylin from Folgertech - $1.25 - [12]
- 8 mm oil impregnated bushings - [13]