Suppliers

Places to buy things

Self populated

Electronics

• Farnell
• CPC
• RS Components
• Rapid Electronics
• Cool Components
• HobbyTronics
• HobbyKing
• Proto-Pic
• SKPang
• Technobots
• Phenoptix
• Kitronic
• Maplin
• Active-Robots
• Gimson Robotics
• Ragworm

US

NOTE: These shops will charge a lot for postage, Customs and VAT.

• Newark
• Digikey
• Sparkfun
• Adafruit
• Tindie
• OSHPark

Materials

Metals

• Belting Online
• Bearing Boys
• Simply Bearings
• Bearing Station
• KJN
  • "Highly recommended" - Mat C
• Misumi
  • Call for best results
• Igus
  • Difficult to buy from
• World of CNC

3D Printer

• 2Engineers
  • Do ceramic hotends and low weight, high torque motors

Jewlery/Glass

See Fine metalwork Bench Consumables and Stock.

Misc

• eBay
• Amazon
• AliExpress
• Alibaba

Services

See Service_Suppliers This page is for companies providing services for things that we can't do in-house.

• Acrow Galvanizing are the nearest hot-dip galvanizers AFAIK. (I don't think we're planning to get a `kettle' of hot zinc in Makespace itself.)
• Mackay
• WeldDone
• MFG
  • Chinese manufacturing portal, not used yet.