Building a robot, have the wheels, motors which are surplus , etc but need to locate the needed gears, couplers etc to complete the geartrain. Are they any good used sources out there...this is a budget project.
Thanks Daryl
Looking for a good source for mechanical components
Nov 02, 2003
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your local RC hobby shop may have a lot of useful stuff too.
You need to indicate the scale. Earl's links are the favorites for smaller desktop-size robots, but all of them have scant offerings for heavy-duty drive trains.
What is the size of the robot you are using? Since you have the motors and wheels, what size of couplers and gears are you looking for?
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the size will be around 24" in diamater and it willbe no more then 3 ft tall. estimate it will be 80 to 100 lbs when done. Same size as an R2D2. It will run from a laptop initiallyand then use an EPIA motherboard, etc.
The motors are the 12V variety from Diverse Electr> >
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