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LolWolflast Friday at 9:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Oh absolutely!

I would not actually use this for uhhh, repeatable measurements over any extended period of time!

(If that were the case, I'd recommend re-printing it in a slightly more stable material, or just CNC milling the mounts out of aluminum using some of the ~$1-2K aluminum desktop mills and using some aluminum extrusions as the base.)


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bigiainyesterday at 1:55 AM

I suspect they'd be fairly cheap to get made at somewhere like JLCCNC. Or maybe get them to 3D print them in metal for you?

I wonder if they have enough different metal choices that you could build a thermal expansion compensated version? https://patents.google.com/patent/US8292537B2/en

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