{"id":3955,"date":"2014-10-01T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2014-10-01T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:58:53","slug":"misumi-for-customized-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/misumi-for-customized-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"MISUMI for customized parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m1.png\" alt=\"m1\" width=\"1005\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3956\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m1.png 1005w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m1-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When fabricating custom parts, starting from raw materials gives you flexibility. However, it is time consuming and design changes can mean starting from scratch. It&#8217;s faster if you can find some part off the shelf to modify. For example, for custom optomechanics, we like to start with some part from Thorlabs or a similar company, and then modify it rather than start from billet aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of middleground, between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercial_off-the-shelf\">COTS<\/a> and fabrication from scratch, is a convenient way to rapidly prototype complex systems. <a href=\"http:\/\/us.misumi-ec.com\/vona2\/mech\/\">MISUMI<\/a> offers a McMaster-Carr like online web site of parts than can be customized by them and then shipped to you within a few days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m2.png\" alt=\"m2\" width=\"948\" height=\"895\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3957\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m2.png 948w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m2-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>When fabricating custom parts, starting from raw materials gives you flexibility. However, it is time consuming and design changes can mean starting from scratch. It&#8217;s faster if you can find some part off the shelf&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/misumi-for-customized-parts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,16,43],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-construction","tag-machining","tag-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","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=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}