Carbon fibre delta arms

[Saber]

Hello, all. I really don't know if this is where I should put this or not, but in a nutshell, I ended up with a Geeetech sort of Kossel-Rostock bastard child with 200mm delta arms. How would I go about fabricating some carbon fibre units, or installing magnetic ball arms? All the information I could find on the subject showed off people building theirs, but no info on parts or what kind of magnet.

[Jimustanguitar]

Search for "Xanaron" if you're interested in magnetic arms. If you just want plain ones, I'd imaging that you'd find what you're looking for by searching for "traxxas".

[Saber]

Thanks, I have no luck with forum search functions. I'm torn about which way to go- I find myself wanting mag-arms because of their zero-slop tendencies, but at the same time I'm sort of leery about them because a good smack will dislodge them.

[Xenocrates]

Personally, I would look at a combination of carbon fiber tubes from ACP, and tube inserts from say, Mcmaster carr.

http://www.acpsales.com/Carbon-Fiber-Pu ... -Tube.html and http://www.mcmaster.com/#Standard-Tube-End-Adapters. I would then use the magnetic style, but add a pair of sprung lines between the carriage and the effector, to keep some load on it, as I doubt very heavily you'd want to buy the zero-slop rod ends (I found some, but they are giant and expensive (12$ each, 24 a pair))