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Shipping and Postage: We are still shipping! We are using enhanced safety procedures and post out website, Ebay and Amazon shipments every working day at around 10.30 am. Lubricants go 1st class or international Standard Royal Mail. Robots, parts and tooling ship with UPS. Understandably there are some delays within the Royal Mail system - we are frequently seeing delays of at least a few working days to UK shipments and 5-10 working days on international post. We have also noticed issues with tracking information. Examples in the last few weeks of June to give you an idea: France 5...

The Coronavirus pandemic and its containment, although disruptive to business, is clearly everyone's priority now and over the coming weeks. 

Thankfully, as we have seen in Italy and other areas, postal and delivery services continue to run. Because of the way we operate we have only needed to make slight adjustments to our business..... 

In the last few years we have developed a few lubrication products. Originally we were looking at greases and oils for our desktop robots. So did some research and found excellent suppliers. Then, through our own experience, we realised that the 3D printer market was missing both information and sources for lubricants. Using WD40 or 3in1 on the plastic parts of a printer will cause huge problems. Again working with our suppliers and researching the best possible solutions we came up with a complete range of solutions including silicone oil, lithium lubricant, food grade grease, and PTFE, Molybdenum and Tungsten...

In the past few weeks we have launched our range of lubricants developed specifically for 3D printers on, but we are a robot company so what happened?! Like many companies we run a few 3D printers to make parts, especially for prototyping. When it came to keeping them in good condition we found that the manufacturers didn't mention very much about maintenance, in fact one or two were pretty vague about assembly and operation!  Knowing a bit about servicing industrial and desktop robots we realised that our 3d printers needed oil and grease to keep them running smoothly but a...

Additive manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing are having a big impact in many areas as they are incredibly useful. An analogy is building a house, you could carve one from a solid lump of rock, or you could make one from bricks stuck together with mortar. 3D printing is built up in layers, much like courses of brick, allowing flexible design with minimal use of material. Plastic is the most common material used in 3D printing. Small plastic 3D printers are available from a few hundred pounds. Other materials such as metal, composites and even concrete can also be...