HPC have an excellent range of products and much of which is from stock but that inventory costs hence their pricing structure.

Technobots pricing is from what I have compared much lower than HPC but then we only stock the more common products and then the more common sizes within those ranges. There is room in the market for both business models as far as we are concerned.

As for quality, Technobots belts are Synchroflex - see http://www.contitech.de/pages/produk...roflex_en.html

They are certainly used widely in industry throughout the world without issue, not only by our own customers of course. We know that the most difficult application for any of our products is combat robots. I could spell out some of the reasons why but many of you will know many of the reasons. If belts are snapping then quite simply the application has exceeded the belts rating. What kills belts is a sudden application of power with minimal ramp up in power, stepper motors can equally be a problem where you need a heavier duty belt than you would first expect.

As for boring gears etc., this has taken off big time for Technobots and we continue to provide this service but as pointed out above, the non-standard size custom boring service has been dropped for now as it was proving too complicated.

All suppliers have issues from time to time with their products and service but it is how they deal with those issues that is important. I cannot and would not comment on other suppliers but we do try and resolve issues as soon as we can. Even as mentioned above, after removing the custom machining option, we did offer PJ a solution even not knowing at the time he was a FRA member. Okay too late to help at that time but the gesture was appreciated.

Moving on, I do pop in here every now and then to see what's happening, still miss the old days and sorry for hijacking the thread but hi to all those who remember me!

Paul