Self-aligning sintered bronze bushings in stock
A bunch of the sintered bronze bushings that are becoming popular in the RepRap community arrived recently. These bushings are really nice since they’re as precise as LM8UU bearings, but they’re smaller, cheaper, don’t rust, and tolerate up to 5 degrees of rod mis-alignment.
I have ones with 8 mm and 10 mm interior diameters, and the nice thing is that both have the same exterior diameter so you can easily upgrade to 10 mm rods later without replacing any of your bushing holder parts!
I’ve released updated versions of my X-ends and X-carriage that can fit these bushings. You can use the bushings with the following parts:
- My X-ends for leadscrews and self-aligning bronze bushings
- My X-carriage for self-aligning bronze bushings
- Simonious’s bushing holders
- AlephObjects X-ends (With Simonious’s bushing holders)
- AlephObject X-carriage (With Simonious’s bushing holders)
- Makergear X-end motor and idler
- Makergear X-carriage
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