67 Robot Parts: Suppliers and Sources
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
67 Robot Parts: Suppliers and Sources
Many inquiries on comp.robotics are of the form: Where can I find X?
where X might be motors, gears, fasteners, connectors etc. The
following companies carry a wide selection of electronics and
mechanical parts. With the possible exception of computing these
companies should have all you need to build robot mechanisms.
Also see the file regularly posted to sci.electronics and a number
of the radio newsgroups:
[68]ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.electronics/ Roger Arrick also
has a web page listing supplies of gears, bearings and parts at:
[69]http://www.robotics.com/mechpart
"All Electronics Corporation"
P.O. Box 567
Van Nuys, CA 91408
tel: 800.826.5432 Electronics parts.
"Allied Devices"
2365 Milburn Avenue,
PO Box 502
Bladwin, NY 11510
tel: 516.223.9100
fax: 516.223.9172 Standard precision mechanical components
"American Science and Surplus"
3605 Howard St.
Skokie, IL 60076
tel: 708.982.0870
fax: 800.934.0722
These guys are a good source for motors, steppers, wire, and lots of
gears, pulleys, etc. stuff for robot people to roll their own robots
as well.
"Arrick Robotics"
2107 W. Euless Blvd.
Euless, Texas 76040 USA
tel: 817.571.4528
fax: 817.571.2317
net: rarrick@ix.netcom.com Arrick makes a number of automation
system including stepper motor systems, positioning tables and
robotic workcells.
"C&H Sales"
2176 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
tel: 818.796.2628
tel: 800.325.9465 Surplus parts. Motors etc.
"Digi-Key Corp"
701 Brooks Avenue South
P.O. Box 677
Thief River Falls, MN 56701-0677
tel: 800.344.4539 Distributor of electronics components and
semiconductors.
"Edmund Scientific "
101 E. Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007-1380
tel: 609.573.6250 order
tel: 609.573.6260 customer service Lots of optics, science and
educational items. A little pricey but nice selection. Edmund also
has a Robotic Technology Curriculum with lessons and tests featuring
the Movit robots. Curriculum is $65.
"Electronic Goldmine "
PO Box 5408
Scottsdale, AZ 85261
tel: 602.451.7454 Sell the ROAMR Robot Kit - $39.95 Lots of
electronics and small mechanics.
"Fascinating Electronics "
P.O. Box 126
Beaverton, OR 97075
tel: 503.292.5233 Experimenter's kits and other electronics.
"Graymark "
Box 5020
Santa Ana, CA 92704
tel: 800.854.7393 Robot and electonics kits, tools and instruments.
"Herbach and Rademan Co. "
18 Canal St.
P.O. Box 122
Bristol, PA 19007-0122
tel: 800.848.8001 (orders)
tel: 215.788.5583 (office)
fax: 215.788.9577 (fax) Electro-mechanical "surplus" parts,
equipment and insturments.
"Hosfelt Electronics"
Ohio?
"JDR Microdevices "
1850 South 10th St
San Jose, CA 95112-9941
tel: 408.494.1400, 800.538.5000
fax: 800.538.5005
bbs: 408.494.1430 Surplus and lots of electronic components
including cameras and some sensors. Some recent components have
included: TV transmitter (part # RK-TV6, $19.95 US) transmits
composite video + audio to any television set withing 600' on one of
channels 2 - 6. Runs on 12VDC.
Microwave doppler radar sensor. Claims to detect a person or animal
up to 12' away (part number RK-MD3, $19.95 w/o case. Claims to come
with complete circuit theory and instructions.
"Marlin P. Jones "
tel: 407.848.8236 Lots of neat surplus stuff.
"McMaster-Carr Supply Company "
PO box 440
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0440
tel: 908.329.3200
fax: 908.329.3772 An amazing catalog of hundreds of thousands of
parts. Lots of mechanical things but not much for electronics or
computing.
"MECI "
tel: 800.344.4465
"Mendelson Electronics Co., Inc "
tel: 800.422.3525
"Newark Electronics "
500 N. Pulaski St.
Chicago, IL 60624-1019
tel: 312.784.5100 (check locally) Major distributor of electronics
components and equipment (1200+ pages) with branches throughout the
US.
"Nordex "
50 Newton Road
Danbury, CT 06810-6216
tel: 203.792.9050 Gears, cams, universals etc.
"PIC Design "
PO Box 1004
Benson Road
Middlebury, CT 06762-1004
tel: 800.243.6125 (except CT)
tel: 203.758.8272 Bearings, clutches, brakes, couplings, tools,
belts, pulleys, gears etc.
"Radio Shack "
Electronic parts and kits. Local retail stores in just about every
city)
"SECS, Inc. "
520 Homestead Avenue
Mt. Vernon, NY 10550
tel: 914.667.5600 Gears and gear assemblies, belt drives, couplings,
bearings, small parts.
"Seitz Corporation"
Box 1398
Torrington, CT 06790
tel: 800.261.2011
tel: 203.489.0696
tel: 203.489.0476
fax: 203.496.0307 Drive components, gears etc.
"Servo Systems "
115 Main Road
PO Box 97
Montville, NJ 07045-9299
tel: 201.335.1007
fax: 201.335.1661 Surplus pieces and prices, motors, actuators,
geardrives, controllers, robots, encoders, transducers, amplifiers.
"Small Parts Inc. "
6891 NE Third Ave
PO Box 381966
Miami, FL 33238-1966
tel: 305.557.8222
fax: 305.751.6217 Lots of neat small supplies including: materials,
metal stock, fasteners, tools etc. This company is the "misc parts"
supplier to the "U.S. FIRST" competetion where corporations and HS
Students form partnerships to build competing robots like Dr
Flowers' ME class at MIT.
"Stock Drive Products "
2101 Jericho Turnpike
Bobx 5416
New Hyde Park, NY 11042-5416
tel: 516.328.3300
fax: 516.326.8827 Great set of handbooks of thousands of components.
"Surplus Center"
Lincoln, Nebraska
tel: 800.488.3407 They're good on medium to large scle stuff,
hydraulics and pneumatics. They seem to supply agricultural machine
prototypers. "Winfred M. Berg "
499 Ocean Ave.,
East Rockaway, LI, NY 11518
tel: 516.599.5010 Precision Mechanical Components
Any technical library should have catalogs from the larger
distributors. These include McMaster-Carr, Grainger, Allied, Newark,
etc.
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