AntWeight Parts Online & Offline

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:14 pm

Unfortunately although still available the 12mm motors have gone up from ?4.99 to ?8.49.

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:56 pm

I've just found a vew interesting website; www.gizmoszone.com

Their range of gears are some of the smallest I've seen (especially the miter and worms/worm gears), and they have a very interesting range of micro gearmotors as well, although most of them are too small to be used for drive without 4 wheel drive (or unless you're willing to sacrifice a lot of power) in an ant.

Just ordered some of the miter gears (maybe any engineers among you can tell me the difference between bevel and miter gears?

) for an upgrade for Zenith; I'll let you know how fast their shipping is once they've arrived.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:07 am

I'd be interested to see that end shaft in more detail. I can't work out how to fix something on it.

Simon

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:31 am

Given the size of the motors and the smallness of the shafts (1.5mm diameter), and that the shafts are plastic, I'm thinking push fitting would probably be the best option. There's probably also just about enough room for a grubscrew if you needed it to be more secure.

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:04 pm

Nice find Scott, I'll be needing some gears soon

BTW, Mitre gears are 1:1 ratio gears at a right Angle. Bevel gears can be any ratio and not at 90 degrees

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:15 pm

Looking through their site, it looks like the output shaft is a D shape, but I can't see them selling anyhing compatible to fit over it.

If I was buying, I'd go for a couple of GH6123S 6mm (Dia.) Micro Planetary Gear Motor Gear ratio: 1:136.02 Speed: 200 RPM (approx.) at 3V, which would equate to about 500RPM at 8.4v, my ideal speed for those 30.4mm diameter Lego wheels that I use. I'd also get a couple of GH612M
Universal Motor Mount for GH612 Series, a total of $40 plus postage, not bad, and weighing about 5g, rather than 20g for Sanyos.

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:17 pm

Just found a supplier of antweight-size polycarbonate at sensible prices:

Fantastic Plastic

They sell A3-sized pieces in 1.0, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12mm thickness.

Postage charges are reasonable too!

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:48 pm

We got some HDPE from

http://www.directplasticsonline.co.uk/

They sell 0.5m x 0.5m sheets in thicknesses from 1mm to 50mm

Postage is ?5.95 unless you spend ?45 (plus VAT) which is quite a lot of antweight-sized plastic!

They also sell polypropylene sheet and various machinable plastics in sheet/block and rod for all you lathe and mill enthusiasts! Acetal, nylon, Tufnol etc.

If you want very small pieces of certain sizes, they are available as samples for ?2.95 (inc p&p).

The delivery time was very good - placed order Thursday evening, shipped Friday, arrived Saturday morning!

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:16 pm

I just paid the post office ?14.18 for tax on a Sabretooth 5RC speed controller, plus $62.49 for the item and shipping. I ordered it on Feb 15th.

Still, it looks great.

Simon

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:40 pm

you should of gone to Technobots