Upgrade Parts!

[loopingz]

Edward I am still pendinbg the second package you offered me. Not super fair but anyway...

[Jlm]

So...are the new motor mount and end plates ever going to become available?

[crashn_burn]

end plates (and maybe carriage plates) will be available soon on the eshapeoko site. Have to pay more expensive shipping though.

[cvoinescu]

Yes, I just got the end plates from the fabricator. I'm working on the shop software, though, so they won't be on for another day or two. About shipping: I changed the end plate design slightly (I cut off a corner that wasn't serving any useful purpose anyway), so that a set of plates plus the screws and the packaging add up to just under 1 kg. That should help a lot with the shipping cost outside Europe. The old design was just over 1 kg -- incredibly annoying.

[calica]

Will the shop software be able to calculate shipping to the USA?

[cvoinescu]

Yes.

[JuiceBox]

What about on the USA Shapeoko site, will they ever be available there?

[Althiels]

I just got an email yesterday saying the upgraded parts are currently in production and will be available soon. Hard to say what that means from a time standpoint, but I would say it is encouraging at least !

[cvoinescu]

It may be a typo in the description, but is says that the end plates are 12ga steel. I sort of expected 10ga, but I think 12ga is OK for the standard size machine. I went with 4 mm stainless steel (that's 0.157 in, a hair thicker than 9ga), which is clearly overkill.

[kerrycorcoran]

Any word on when the Open End plates will be available?