What's this called?

**plargen** · 29th February 2012, 17:31

its probably not from the food industry as they have to uses stainless for pretty much everything cos they cant have paint or rust contaminating the food

**PJ-27** · 27th March 2012, 08:29

Got another What's it called?!

Those bearings people put at the front of their robot so the chassis doesn't run on the ground, but instead on the ball? I need a couple, but can't figure out their name to search for them.

Cheers!

**Ellis** · 27th March 2012, 11:24

Do you mean these things? - http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl= ... 0QWOnajyDw

**PJ-27** · 27th March 2012, 11:47

I think they're called ball castors. Were do people get theirs for robots?

**psycho_fling** · 27th March 2012, 12:01

the technical name for them is ballbearing transfer units i believe i always call them BTU 's

technobots

http://www.technobotsonline.com/wheels- ... units.html

**PJ-27** · 27th March 2012, 12:12

Excellent, thanks.

I searched T-bots for Ball Caster and it brought up nothing (despite ball caster quite clearly being in the name of several products) stupid crappy search function.

Looks like the ones I need are out of stock. I did find these though:

http://www.active-robots.com/motors-whe ... -pair.html

Bit pricey......

I'll now search for BTUs.