Time for an update.
The ordered parts are slowly arriving and the bits that stop me are the printed ones. My workmate swamped by jobs so I just have to give him some slack but I know the bits aren't that far away now.
The parts ordered via ebay have basically arrived so let's have look at the goodies:
The first picture shows the paper template I intend to use as stencil for putting a name on the printer, thought that would be kind of fun.

Next "bag" contained the electronics. An Arduino Mega, a shield card for stepper drivers, the small display, five stepper drivers of the most common type and, cables and connectors to join them all. All at a bargain price as mentioned above.

Next is a kit of mechanical parts, that is bearing of different sorts, Flex couplings, toothed belt with gears and a specially treated M8x60 machine screw used as filament feeder.

Stepper motors are a must and even a bit expensive, these came to me from Italy . The shipment also included cables but I missed adding them to the photo.

Another parcel from China contained the extruder nozzle with heater and thermo resistor. The fan was also included as you can see.

the heatbed looks like below. It can be used for both 12 and 24 V DC. It will be mounted beneath a mineral glass plate that will be the actual build bed. Size is about 200x200mm.

last week the three end switches used to mark the end of travel for each of the axis.

The last picture for this time shows the threaded bars and smooth rods I will be using to put the movements together. From back to front. 2x1m M10 stainless threaded rod, then a 1m M5 stainless for Z-movement, and finally a bunch of stainless smooth rods 8mm dia. These smooth rods keep th h9 tolerance so should work well with the bearings.

Still to arrive are the printed parts as said, together with a large graphic display to replace the smaller one - I missed the difference from the beginning but the overall cost is OK anyway.
More pictures when the build commence.
I will of course keep track of cost during the build but prefer to wait until finished to get the tally right.
BR
/Peter