The Thrifty Bot's goal is to provide robotics teams with affordable quality parts.
Mount all the things with this latest offering from The Thrifty Bot! Finally a plate that can interface with just about any common motor or planetary gearbox in the FIRST Robotics Competition. This 4mm thick 6061 aluminum black anodized plate includes bolt mounting patterns for the following motors and planetary gearboxes:
- REV Ultraplanetary Gearbox
- REV NEO 550 & Banebots 550 Brushed motors
- VEX Versaplanetary and Versaplanetary Lite gearboxes
- AndyMark 57 Sport planetary gearboxes
- 775 series brushed motors
- REV NEO & Falcon 500 brushless motors
- Traditional Mini-CIM & CIM motors
- 4mm thick (.157") allows for stronger cantilevered applications
- 1/4" hole to hole spacing, 1/2" spacing between hole rows. Holes are .164" natively supporting #8 bolts or 5/32 rivets. Holes can be drilled out to support #10 hardware.
1 plate weight: .079 lbs
A companion plate to the Thrifty Motor Megaplate specifically for holding 1.125" bearings. This 4mm thick 6061 aluminum black anodized plate still includes a 2" mounting pattern for planetary gearboxes and includes two .164" holes for adding 5/32 rivets or #8 bolts to help retain the bearing.
1 plate weight: .075 lbs
This 8 pack of 2.5mm thick L gussets can be used to assemble frames or other mechanisms commonly used in competitive robotics.
This 8 pack of 2.5mm thick T gussets can be used to assemble frames or other mechanisms commonly used in competitive robotics.
The Thrifty Clamping Bushing Block provides teams a quick and easy way to capture Thrifty Bushings when mounting to 1" x 1" extrusion. Simply drill a pass thru clearance hole and insert the Thrifty Bushing which is then trapped against the extrusion wall's material.
- Two black anodized plates
- Four 8-32 1.5" long bolts
- Two Thrifty Bushings
6061 aluminum anodized black
Weights:
- One clamping plate: 0.018 lbs (.293 oz)
- Full assembly with 2 thrifty bushings and 4 bolts: 0.072 lbs (1.145 oz)