Subject:
|
Re: source for Futaba servo motors?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics.handyboard
|
Date:
|
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:46:03 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Richard Drushel <drushel@apk*NoSpam*.net>
|
Viewed:
|
2045 times
|
| |
|
|
[Rick Moll] spake unto the ether:
> I've been buying lots and lots of servos from TowerHobbies (1-800-637-4989)
> and modifying them for our local robot group here in St. Louis. I've always
> received good customer service from them. The best prices on servos are
> their store brand which I believe used to all be Hobbico servos (made in IL
> as I recall). But now they have both a "System 2000" and a "System 3000"
> line of servos.
I called them this morning and ordered 6 Futaba S148 servos; they
had a 3-pack for <$40; with shipping, order total was $85.93.
Nomenclature note: I confused the guy on the phone by asking
about "servo motors"; to him, that meant the actual motor can inside
the black case. In our class use, "servo motor" meant the entire
package: black case, gear, motor, wiring, etc. The salesman's word
for this package was "servo". I of course wanted the entire package,
not just the bare motor dissected out.
Thanks for pointing me to Tower Hobbies!
*Rich*
--
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D. | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature. / A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7080 U.S.A. | -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: source for Futaba servo motors?
|
| (...) I've been buying lots and lots of servos from TowerHobbies (1-800-637-4989) and modifying them for our local robot group here in St. Louis. I've always received good customer service from them. The best prices on servos are their store brand (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
|
3 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
