by cvoinescu » Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:28 pm
Wait a second. I'm a bit confused about what you're asking.
MakerSlide is, loosely speaking, Misumi's HFS5-2040 with two Vs added. MakerSlide is designed by Bart Dring, the owner of this site. Nobody else that I'm aware of makes a structural profile with built-in V rails, not even Misumi.
Misumi has a few bolt-on options, some of which work with the HFS5 series and give a profile similar but not identical to MakerSlide. OpenRail is another bolt-on option, which, when used with HFS5-2040, is dimensionally identical to MakerSlide, except with less clearance (which matters in some applications, but not in others). V-slot is another linear motion and structural profile combination, but it has slots, not V rails, and it's not a direct replacement for MakerSlide, because the wheel span isn't the same (so you need to modify the carriage).
MakerSlide itself is available in plentiful supply from inventables.com in the US, and also from amberspyglass.co.uk in the UK (that's me). There are a few other sources too -- for instance, as far as I know, ORD Bot kits from RepRapDiscount come with MakerSlide that's neither from Inventables nor from us, so there must be an East Asian supplier too.
[Edited to clarify who designed MakerSlide.]
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cvoinescu on Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.