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illumanat'i
10-01-2004, 22:27
what is a good place to buy treads?
few years ago we (555) had bad experiences with brek-o-flex (took way to long to get to us) and we need a good, fast place to buy some
sanddrag
10-01-2004, 22:58
look in the mcmaster catalog for "incline conveyor belting"
kevin.li.rit
10-01-2004, 23:44
You can always use a timing belt belt flipped over.
Clark Gilbert
10-01-2004, 23:47
what is a good place to buy treads?
few years ago we (555) had bad experiences with brek-o-flex (took way to long to get to us) and we need a good, fast place to buy some
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=204267#post204267


We used a belts and delrin pulleys from a company called
FN Sheppard (http://www.fnsheppard.com/).
echos
10-01-2004, 23:59
For tanks you could look in at an industrial suply store for items like chian that have flanges on them or look in a catalog for something like that.

we've used a setup like that for one our battlebots but has yet to be seen on any of our first robots yet.
Cory
11-01-2004, 00:12
You cant have metal touching the ground though, so that wouldnt work.

Cory
NateBot16
11-01-2004, 11:39
They look really nice, but a tad bit expensive for our team.

http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_treads.html
Adam Y.
11-01-2004, 11:45
For tanks you could look in at an industrial suply store for items like chian that have flanges on them or look in a catalog for something like that.Look here for ansi attachmetn chain discussion that I recently had (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23278&highlight=ansi+attachment+chain)
BillyGoats
11-01-2004, 11:56
we've never had a problem with brek-o-flex donno what you mean they take to long to get?
D.J. Fluck
11-01-2004, 12:40
we've never had a problem with brek-o-flex donno what you mean they take to long to get?


There have been problems in the past that if too many orders are put in to them, there is a good chance that your order could get backordered. In one case I've heard about at team a few years ago that ordered from them and recieved their extra parts a month and a half later. Basically what they are saying, order quickly and order plenty of extras...
BillyGoats
11-01-2004, 20:30
o alright i know we get a pair mabey two pairs at the beginning of build season then we order a pair more like 3 weeks in two it and we have always gotten ours just when we expected to get them. only problem is they break to easy :D
kevin.li.rit
11-01-2004, 22:05
We've never had anyproblems with our reversed timing belt method, although the screws in it did chew up the floor of our robotics room.