Parts Suppliers - Master List

[sanddrag]

The purpose of this thread is to make one central complete list for all the suppliers we all use to buy parts for our robots. Hopefully this can be made a sticky so rookie teams and other can find it easily during the build. Let's keep it to places that sell and ship to the whole country, not places like "Uncle Larry's Bearing Supply on the corner of Fourth and Main" Post the name, URL or Phone #, and a short description of what they sell. Hopefully this thread will become a valueable resource for rookie teams and everyone.

Please read the previous posts before you post, no duplicates. Let's keep this thread usefull and efficient.

[Hunter]

SDP-SI https://sdp-si.com/

They are a great source for spur gear stock (which is way cheaper than buying indivual gears), small bearings, including flanged bearings, chain, sprockets, and lots of other miscellaneous small stuff.

[Jay H 237]

MSC Industrial Supply Co.
http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm

McMaster-Carr
http://www.mcmaster.com/

Grainger
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml

Small Parts, Inc.
http://www.smallparts.com/

SMC Corporation of America
http://www.smcusa.com/default.asp

Festo Pnuematics
http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coor...s/en/index.htm

[Max Lobovsky]

I will be adding anything mentioned here to http://www.firstwiki.org/Suppliers. Short descriptions of the source would also be nice. The page currently has:

General

• McMaster Carr (http://www.mcmaster.com) - probably the widest selection of FIRST related stuff. Raw materials, power transmission, tools, etc.
• Small Parts (http://www.smallparts.com) - large selection, smaller than McMaster, but focused on smaller and more precision engineering.

Power Transmission

• Boston Gear (http://www.bostongear.com)
• Martin Sprocket & Gear (http://www.martinsprocket.com/)
• SDP/SI (http://www.sdp-si.com/)

Electronics

• Digi-Key (http://www.digikey.com)
• Innovation First (http://www.innovationfirst.com)
• Newark in one

[Raul]

AndyMark - for power transmission and drivetrain products.
http://www.andymark.biz/

Pic Design - for those hard to find 0.7M metric gears to mesh with the drill motor pinion
http://www.pic-design.com/

[Jay H 237]

Here's some more links to companys that have supplied/donated parts to the KOP

Connector Concepts, Inc.
http://www.connectorconcepts.com/
supplier of the breakers and fuse panels for KOP

Tyco Electronics
http://www.tycoelectronics.com/
supplier of connectors

Skyway Wheels
http://www.skywaywheels.com/
supplier of wheels for KOP

Banner
http://www.bannerengineering.com/
supplier of sensors

Terminal Supply Co.
http://www.terminalsupplyco.com/
electrical terminal supplier

Clippard
http://www.clippard.com/
supplier of electrical and pnuematic devices

Parker
http://www.parker.com/
supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP

Norgren
http://www.norgren.com/
supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP

Autodesk
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...41&wac=IL18067
CAD software included with KOP

Solidworks
http://www.solidworks.com/
popular CAD program

[Kevin Sevcik]

Mouser Electronics
http://www.mouser.com
Various electronics

W.M. Berg
http://www.wmberg.com
Various gears, sprockets, bearings, etc.

GlobalSpec (Registration Required)
http://www.globalspec.com
Not a supplier, but a huge database of suppliers. Register and you can enter specs for a part and see who has something that fits. Warning: If you click on links to parts you've found, you'll be getting catalogs in the mail.

[Fe_Will]

Grob Inc.
http://www.grobinc.com/
Hard to find pulleys and pinion wire as well as custom broaching.

[JimWright949]

AP Circuits
http://www.apcircuits.com/
For custom printed circuit boards.

CadSoft Online
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/
Home of the Eagle Layout Editor, for designing the printed circuit boards.

[Max Lobovsky]

Isn't there a rule restricting electronics suppliers to Radio Shack, Digi-key, Newark-in-one, and Future Active? Aren't all these other electronics suppliers (except perhaps if its a duplicated of something from the kit) illegal?

[dlavery]

Several dozen metalworking-related suppliers are listed on the Metalworking Web Sites Index.

-dave

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

Isn't there a rule restricting electronics suppliers to Radio Shack, Digi-key, Newark-in-one, and Future Active? Aren't all these other electronics suppliers (except perhaps if its a duplicated of something from the kit) illegal?

Additional electronic components for use on the robot must be currently available from or equivalent to those available from Newark InOne...

They're legal as long as they can be found at or are equivalent to parts found at the official suppliers.

[JimWright949]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

Isn't there a rule restricting electronics suppliers to Radio Shack, Digi-key, Newark-in-one, and Future Active? Aren't all these other electronics suppliers (except perhaps if its a duplicated of something from the kit) illegal?

Max,

Eagle (from CADSoft) is the Autodesk Inventor Tool for Electronics Design, you can create your schematic, and then layout your board with it, and there is a free version on the Web site. I would encourage anyone interested in electronic design to take a look at it. APCircuits would be something like sending the Mechanical Design out to a Machine Shop to be created. The cost of manufacture of the circuit board is part of the build cost. The components to put on the board need to be taken from the restricted electronics supplier, and also count toward the cost of the robot.

-Jim

[Max Lobovsky]

The rule isn't so clear. It's being discussed right now in this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=31983

I guess you could argue that a PCB is only wire and solder, so it doesn't count as an electrical component, but i can't really think of any electrical component that isn't just wire and solder when it comes down to it. I had thought that a custom PCB would be illegal.

[eugenebrooks]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

The rule isn't so clear. It's being discussed right now in this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=31983

I guess you could argue that a PCB is only wire and solder, so it doesn't count as an electrical component, but i can't really think of any electrical component that isn't just wire and solder when it comes down to it. I had thought that a custom PCB would be illegal.

By buying suitable supplies from Digikey, and other sources,
you can expose, develop and etch your own printed circuit boards.
It is so much fun that any other way ought to be illegal...