{"id":2416,"date":"2012-06-08T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:10:21","slug":"manipulator-stand-reasonably-priced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/manipulator-stand-reasonably-priced\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulator stand, reasonably priced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sutter.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"sutter\" width=\"489\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sutter.png 489w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sutter-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Manipulator stands are priced bizarrely high. The Sutter model above starts at $760. If you want a taller one, or one with a linear slide, the price can go up to $1395 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutter.com\/products\/price_pages\/price_MT1000.html\">price list<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This Scientifica one is about $1071.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sci.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"sci\" width=\"345\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sci.png 345w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sci-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an alternative, here&#8217;s one made out of about $225 worth of Thorlabs parts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ms.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ms\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ms.jpg 400w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ms-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a parts list:<br \/>\nXT66DP-500 (cut to length, can be done by hand with a hacksaw)<br \/>\nXT66-200<br \/>\nXT66P1<br \/>\nXT66RA2<br \/>\nXT66D2-50 (drill and tap holes as needed, this is easy)<br \/>\nXT66C2 (3x)<br \/>\n(In some cases, it may be possible to do with the XT66DP-500 and one XT66C.)<\/p>\n<p>Below, here&#8217;s a lightfield shot of it, courtesy of the recently-arrived Labrigger <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/light-field-imaging\/\">Lytro camera<\/a>. Click on different parts of the picture to refocus.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/pictures.lytro.com\/slslab\/pictures\/204545\/embed?token=c9915398-b1b5-11e1-9cdf-12313940809d\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Manipulator stands are priced bizarrely high. The Sutter model above starts at $760. If you want a taller one, or one with a linear slide, the price can go up to $1395 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutter.com\/products\/price_pages\/price_MT1000.html\">price&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/manipulator-stand-reasonably-priced\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}