Seems like a Y rail ~2x the length of X is doable and shippable with the use of a single rail splice coupling.
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so, I do not see what you want to use as your preferred carrier?
Are you mailing, do you want to place in the belly of a plane, or is it just a simple car ride?
This is how I ship my machines, All wired and ready to go, I just take the beam off of the XZ plates, disconnect the X belt tensioner and “roll” them around beside the beam in the box, all snuggled in with the foam. So far has worked very well, and now I hope I am not jinxing myself since my latest order is supposed to be delivered today
I believe @Tokoloshe made one of these for one of his orders, but I could be mistaken
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Yes, I did.
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@MakerJim, if your goal is to bring a CNC and not a LR specifically, then, also depending on what type of projects you want to mill/draw/laser/engrave, then, Maslow 4.1 CNC could be a good portable full sheet capable option, or a Compass?
Would a travel version of MPR&P make sense to prioritize over LR given the design, does it lend it self to being more portable?
Isn’t the LR cad parametric such that the plates are identical and you just swap the ends? (This is my recollection)
If you mean gantry + YZ plates, this seems like a really bad idea to me as it makes packaging much more difficult. A full gantry minus the YZ plates is exactly what I have in mind (and how JJ ships the assembled LR machines)
If you’re willing to share it (even privately), it could be a help. I’ll give back any changes I make should they be of value to you in shipping product.
Murphy at work… I’m also glad we had the V1 community there. Every single one of us could’ve rebuilt that thing any way necessary.
Yep, this matches my recollection.
Oh great idea! I wish I’d have thought of that.
For this exercise, assume that I’ll be taking up to 3 checked bags on an aircraft.
Interesting. What type of splice?
Those are great machines. I may build myself a Compass after seeing Cam at RMRRF. Sweet machine.
But if I’m going to a maker event, I’m probably lugging around a V1 machine as a starting point.
One beautiful thing about MPR&P is that you can break it down to an easily shipable pile of small parts, and you can ‘grow’ it as you print more parts. Love that concept.
Very much this.
I will send you a PM shortly, My CAD skills are trash so hopefully it helps more than henders.
Absolutely! Did hurt my ego a little since that was the first one of my builds the big boss had ever seen, and I really wanted it to be perfect, but such is life
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Whoa, I have recently spent alot of time in planes. Checked bags are their enemy it seems 
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I love to travel with no checked bags when I can, but if you’re taking equipment to an event, this just isn’t an option in a lot of cases.
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Fedex - when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight (and you don’t mind dropping several hundred dollars to make that happen).
For several hundred dollars, I could add another checked bag- and have it when I arrive, in near real time.
I think I average $60-70 to ship a full sheet machine UPS with full insurance and adult signature. And so far they have done REAL well. A smaller machine will be a little cheaper. Now I have no idea what it would cost to ship it across the pond. I don’t mess with that.
You have more faith in the airline baggage system than I do. I’ve had more bags get lost or sent to a different airport than I can remember.
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I have traveled alot this year. The apps track your bags now! I find that very comforting! So far I have been very lucky!!
But hearing them throw the bags in the plane is very concerning!!!
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It’s only that way because you don’t get to hear UPS, FedEx, DHL, or whoever throwing your packages in the sort facilities or loading the trucks.
I’ve sent instrumented dummy packages on all the major US freight carriers and most of the airlines that were in service in the 1990s. You WOULD NOT believe the shock levels you see.
We calculated that at one UPS facility a package was either dropped from 1 story up, or hit by a truck.
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'm not sponsored by Alaska Air, but damn, that sure would be nice. Coming home from RMRRF, I couldn’t fit the PCTG filament spool in my hand luggage, so checked in as-is, and hoped for the best…
Arrived just fine, no damage
Explicitly asking for items to be put in a conveyor belt tub/tray like the video may help…
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How much was that lil pkg?
Flight included 2 “free” checked luggage, so no extra.
Last year I paid heavy checked luggage fee when sending the MP3DP v4, that’s partly why I didn’t bring any projects to RMRRF this year. Just brought the tablets with community project gallery pics/videos, so, was neat being able to bundle everything into hand luggage, well almost. Got some funny stares at baggage claim.
Would be neat to have a carry-on hand luggage sized machine, so you don’t have to worry about it being bashed/lost.
Heh, back when I was waiting for my current 3d printer I went to mrrf, and one of the guys that had the taller version of my printer shipped his with fedex. They basically destroyed it. Dropped it hard enough to bend the frame and pulled screws out of the extrusion nuts.
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