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From: yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (Dojun Yoshikami)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Robotic Supplies
Keywords: Robotics Hardware
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.235317.1541@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 20 Mar 91 23:53:17 GMT
Organization: National Naval Medical Center
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Howdy.  We're in the process of making some small robots, but we're haveing
some problems with where to get robotics supplies.  I'm referring to small
parts (all those little nifty things that you find in the drawers of a 
machine shop).  If anyone knows of some mail-order companies that have a good 
selection of small parts (gears, bearings, pullies, screws, sheet metal, tools,
whatever) please let me know. 

We figured we'd look in the Thomas Register (You know, that big stack of green
books that you find in the library that is kind of a business yellow-pages for
industrial America) and found a half-inch or so worth of pages all about motors.
But so far, the folks we called haven't sent us a thing.  We even found a bunch
of places that were willing to custom make things, but as with many 
experimenters, we're on a shoestring budget and custom-machined goods are just
too expensive.  Most of the stuff we're looking for is small hardware or small 
parts, and there is not much of a heading for that in the Register. 

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