Placed orders for my parts last night and have been trying to figure out how to handle the 3d printing. All of the online services and even the local UPS store that has a printer all come in around $300. Ouch! I'm a member of the local maker space, and someone has recently taken over ownership of the 3d printing there. He's working on getting the printers up and running again and calibrated. I've offered to help out were I can. So hopefully I can get in there this week and perhaps start working on the prints.
I've also considered building the base, pivot arms, and handle platform from aluminum. I've been doing some steel welding at the maker space but haven't tried aluminum yet. I picked up some offcuts at the local metal supply over the weekend to play around and practice. I've been trying to take some measurements off the STL files. I'm curious if you could easily upload dimensional drawings of some of the parts for those who might want to try to make one with other fabrication means?
Looking forward to putting this thing together. Thanks for sharing!