where to buy treads?

[illumanat'i]

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]

look in the mcmaster catalog for "incline conveyor belting"

[kevin.li.rit]

You can always use a timing belt belt flipped over.

[Clark Gilbert]

Originally Posted by illumanat'i

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/sh...267#post204267

We used a belts and delrin pulleys from a company called
FN Sheppard.

[echos]

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]

You cant have metal touching the ground though, so that wouldnt work.

Cory

[NateBot16]

They look really nice, but a tad bit expensive for our team.

http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_treads.html

[Adam Y.]

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

[BillyGoats]

we've never had a problem with brek-o-flex donno what you mean they take to long to get?

Originally Posted by BillyGoats

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]

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

[kevin.li.rit]

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.