A nice article by Mark Huebner, Market Development Manager, PBC Linear http://www.designworldonline.com/5-considerations-for-scanning-printing-and-subtractive-machining-design/#_  Individually mounted guide rails are difficult to align, adding cost and reducing performance.  Plain bearings with PTFE based Frelon® liner eliminates metal-to-metal contact and is self-lubricating. Unfortunately these slides are not easy to get your hands on if you are planning a DIY project. and then there is also a price tag involved... So please PBC linear and competitors like IGUS / Misumi consider to make it more easy and affordable for makers to use these kind of slides. Yes it is more easy then several years ago but stuff like this should be available in all the little shops not only from corporate website stores. Though maybe our friends in China jump into this marked sooner or later and then have to listen to every engineers moaning that it is Chinese shit? Why wait for China's answer, just open up to the market now. Am I wrong? It happened before with products like Hiwin its just a matter of time. |
