New aluminum profile for delta like printers, reducing nb of parts

Hello
I just wanted to share to your attention the following topic about the possibility of a dedicated profile for deltas' that I may have posted in the wrong forum.
My concern is, for those of you who might be interested, to know what you think about it. Please leave comments on the original topic !

Thank you

It seems like a good idea, but not sure the sales will offset the cost of making a die.

There doesn't seem to be sufficient demand to keep Makerslide in stock anywhere in Europe, so I can't see there being much of a market for something even more specialised.

Some custom brackets for regular alu profile might be useful though.

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I cant see it working. Whilst it's a nice idea, makerslide, openbeam, vslot, et all are pretty much a complete failure due to price and lack of demand.

The thing is this: We have printers. So why is someone not going to just go and buy standard t-slow extrusion, then print plastic ends, plastic adaptors, etc. The price difference is massive. When I was pricing up my delta frame it was a case of ~£25 for standard Bosch t-slot, or £100+ for any of the 'special' extrusions.

A lot of them have been having big problems with quality control too. The EU/UK supplier of makerbeam for example has pulled all their stock and has been having quality problems for a long time it seems. Clearly if it was a big operation they wouldn't be doing that for such a length of time, which gives the impression that sadly, it's still just someones hobby side project.

Really we should all be focusing not on even more different vitamin metals, and instead focus on ones that are readily available globally. Whilst makerbeam, openbeam, etc are a nice idea, realistically they will never have enough demand to make it worth while producing them.

A good example - 20mm extrusions. They are very cheap, very strong and available everywhere. Yet the Cherry Pi and the 3RD are the only printers that make use of them.