Where to buy heated bed?

[shai]

So now that I'm thinking about how big a 6x6x6 actually is... I might consider upgrading myself by just purchasing a larger sized heated bed, I'm pretty sure I can find rods myself, and if I'm right, the rest of the hardware/plastic parts etc stay the same (I'm talking about the plastic printrbot 6x6x6).

Anyway, does anyone know where I can find a larger sized heated bed? And make sure it works properly with the printrbot hardware/software, etc..?

[PaulRac]

http://ultimachine.com/content/prusa-pcb-heated-bed is one option. It's actually 200x200mm which is a hair under 8 inches.

[drawcut]

Thinking about this myself. Actually, I'm thinking about just increasing the Y dimension first. Seems like a lot of things would be longest in one dimension only. Looking around my desk I see my keyboard, a pen, calculator, water bottle - most things seem to have one overall dimension longer than the other two. Expanding just Y would be fairly easy, I'm thinking. Longer wood bed, two longer smooth rods and a longer Y belt. The headed bed is the hardest part but I think an 8 x 8 bed would just fit between the Z rods on a standard PB. The extra 2" in the X would be wasted initially but would allow for future X expansion.

[FisHNorway]

MK2:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RepRap-PCB-Heat ... 639wt_1396
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RepRap-PCB-Heat ... 224wt_1396

MK1:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-RepRap-Heat ... 743wt_1396

Much cheaper than Ultimachine.

[shai]

is it possible to go beyond 8X8 for a heated bed? Also will all of the types of beds work with printrbot hardware? What about voltage differences? (does that matter?)

[FisHNorway]

[scantrontb]

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[PaulRac]

I wouldn't count on the thingiverse files being accurate anymore. They're fairly old and it seems like Book has changed a decent amount since they were posted.