[dorkbotsea-blabber] Looking for someone mechanically inclined

[Brendan Burns]

a great source is McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com) you kind of need to
have a rough idea of what you're looking for but they're selection is
unparralleled.

--brendan
On 9/1/08, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote:
>
>  On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Brett Wagner wrote:
>
> > Of particular interest in terms of questions:
> >   - gears, how to source them, how to talk about them.
> >   - drive chains, where to source smaller than bicycle type chains.
> >   - local companies that do milling of various metals and plastics
> >
>
>  I don't know enough to contribute substantially, but I'd love for this to
> be discussed on-list --- the -blabber list has been kind of low-traffic
> lately, and getting my mechanical doohickeys to operate properly has always
> been one of my weak spots.
>
>  Bill Beaty mentions some of them on his web page, but another source for
> smallish mechanicals is hobby-robot and battle-bot suppliers, like Trossen
> and Pololu.
>
>
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