Anyone have any advice for sourcing aluminum or acrylic yz plates and would anyone be interested in doing a more bulk order so we could all save money?

[image] Are those XZ plates salvagable? Advice The basic idea is you can make them yourself, or buy them from me. If money is moving any other way that is a bummer. So I do not agree with your statement.

Send cut send? Or one of the other online places? We have a local water jet place I’ve considered using to cut parts.

have you gotten a qoute from them?

Sending the files to a third party like send cut send to make is a breach of the open source licence.

doesnt Ryan himself recommend send cut send?

YZ plates are available from the store or provided as files for you to make yourself AFAIK.He maybe recommends send cut send for stuff you can’t purchase, or just in general? Not sure.

I’m pretty sure it’s not a breach unless you’re then turning around and selling those parts.

He stated in another thread that it is technically a breach of the license, since someone else is making money with it.

if he offered them in aluminum id defiantly agree and id also just buy them from him as they would for sure be cheaper then sourcing them.

I do not believe that Ryan recommends any commercial service for V1 cut or 3D printed pieces at all, other than his shop. He provides flat parts and 3D printed parts for his machines, and that is how he earns his living. Providing STL/3MF/DXF files so that you can make them yourself is a courtesy, …

I feel like if its a part/ material he doesnt offer he would be ok with it? id love for him to offer yz plates in aluminum as it would for sure be cheaper then sourcing it myself. I saw a post where he recomended send cut send for strut plates so maybe he only recomends it for parts he doesnt sell a…

Aluminum/acrylic YZ plates

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