CIM-U-LATORS

[keehun]

Hi ChiefDelphi,

Who has bought/used a CIM-U-LATOR? How is it holding up?

Team 2502 is in need of one and if any of our brother and sisters have an extra CIM-U-LATOR, we would be willing to pay some premium to get that. The back-order for Banebots seems impossible to get around otherwise... and they won't even deliver until build season is over.

If you have an extra as a back up, it wouldn't hurt to sell us one and buy another to have it come later for back up, right?

Love,
On behalf of Team 2502

[Chris is me]

We might have ordered 4 when we're using two - I'll find out.

[Thermal]

I really wish the globes were in this year's KOP. With the lack of availability of cimulators and no information or drawings of the transmissions until week 2, it left a sour taste in my mouth.

Also, the Globe motor for me offered a lot more than the 395's do. At least the globes had an integrated gearbox and were great for low RPM low power applications.

[jsasaki]

team 2439 really needs some as well if anyone has any extras for the 775. banebots! thanks for the motors in the KOP but i wish you would have gave us the gearboxes with those motors because we cant do anything without them

[falconmaster]

We are desperate need of a set as well. Any body out there that help us.

[IndySam]

Has anybody gotten one or are they just vaporware like the p60's?

[Jared Russell]

To the best of my knowledge, not a single CIM-U-LATOR or P60 has arrived at a team's doorstep this year.

[thefro526]

From what I've been hearing and the little information I've gotten from Banebots, it seems that the Earliest orders of both the P60's and CIMulators should be shipping late this week and early next week.

Whether or not they actually ship is a different matter.

[Brandon Holley]

We ordered several weeks ago and have spoken to banebots a couple of different times. I believe the last we heard they had "assured" us that they would ship by monday.

This is an extremely frustrating situation to say the least. Had we known it would take ~4 weeks for our gearboxes to arrive, we would have just designed our own. We may still even do that just to get the thing done.

-Brando

[Hawiian Cadder]

are the P60's for the rs550's also delayed?


or has anyone ordered through an alternate supplier?


http://www.robotmarketplace.com/prod...gearboxes.html

[JesseK]

If anyone needs a P60 256:1 to use as a speed reducer in a very low torque application via a BB550, PM me. I'll double check that our extra is actually a P60 (they're from 2008, and were gently used then) and maybe we can swap for something.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Jared341

To the best of my knowledge, not a single CIM-U-LATOR or P60 has arrived at a team's doorstep this year.

We got our P60's last week. But we also ordered very early in the build season.

[Tom Line]

I hope this doesn't start a run on AM's planetaries. We started with banebots, and started engineering from there (all the while nervous, but knowing we had two other options if banebots fell flat on their face yet again).

Once we gave up on the banebots (no way to get enough for the comp bots), we've moved on to dewalts. Unfortunately for those that don't know, the standard Dewalt stuff is OOS until mid March. Unless you're very familiar with the Dewalt drills, you'd be guessing if you purchased any other than the one in Nothing But Dewalts. Not to mention a very high pricetag if the one you buy doesn't fit, and we don't have time to try twice.

Finally we've turned to Andy Mark as a last resort. I sure hope they get those planetaries in fast, but the snow storms aren't going to help. This is not a pleasing situation to be in - we're more worried about basic functions than we are about playing the game.

PS - the modification to mate the two is quite simple. Mill out a pocket in the panetary motor adapter plate so the banebots sits flush with the 4-bar-pattern already there, and open up the center hole to accept the motor hub. Clearance holes for the M4 fasteners, then push on the pinion the correct distance (measure with your calipers to get the proper gear depth). I drew it up tonight without much trouble. I had the advantage of having a planetary in front of me to measure though

[sanddrag]

In the back of my mind, I'm also having the thought of using some generic chinese cordless drill gearboxes. Might not be the strongest out there, but they're cheap, and likely come with a plain-jane 550 sized motor. The only trick would be pressing the pinion off the existing motor, or perhaps you'd get lucky, and one of the planet gears (from a second one) would be the same as the pinion needed.

Here's another good link http://kamocat.com/robot/planetary.php

Of course, this wouldn't be like a CIM, but still would be rather useful.

[Paul Copioli]

Sorry John ... won't happen again.

All,

Here are the two drawings. Please make sure you measure your RS775 shafts as they do vary a little.

Paul