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*Zinc galvanized rods don't rust, but may be rough? McMaster $9/6 feet - [https://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/126/3927/steel/zinc-galvanized-low-carbon-steel-rods/] | |||
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Revision as of 18:16, 2 July 2020
Precision CNC Machine Applications
From 3D printing to more precision
- Zinc galvanized rods don't rust, but may be rough? McMaster $9/6 feet - [1]
Sourcing
USA
- Stainless - [2]
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 - [3]
- $4.6/foot on amazon - [4]
- $10 for 1 meter - Folgertech - [5]
- Specifications included - [6]. $7.10 for 355 mm
- How about less hard rod and plastic bearings? See about IGUS plastic bearings - [7]
- Igus - $8/bearing - [8]
- Reddit thread - no consensus - [9]
- Igus external bearing dimensions are not the same - [10]
- This reddit includes comments on Lulzbot rods - [11]
- Press fit vs non-press fit IGUS - [12]
- Drylin from Folgertech - $1.25 - [13]
- 8 mm oil impregnated bushings - [14]