Useful Local Vendors (Ft. Collins, CO)
(make sure you request a CSU discount and tax exemption under tax ID #: 9802381)
- Hardware (nuts, bolts, springs, etc.)
- Hobby Supplies (small motors and gear boxes, special materials and hardware)
- Electronics (IC's, discrete components, switches, photo-optic sensors, power sources)
- General Product Information
- Mechanical and Industrial Components (motors, gear boxes, accessories, etc.)
- Mechatronics Resources and Components
- Metal Stock Materials (bars, plates, structural members, etc.)
- Plastic Stock Materials (sheets, tubes, rods, etc.)
- Robotics Small Project Supplies (motors, drive components, sensors, hardware)
- Small Parts (bearings, couplings, gears, springs, shafts, belts, pulleys, seals,
etc.)
for miscellaneous, cheap stuff (e.g., motors and gearboxes from appliances,
ac-to-dc wall transformers, parts from consumer electronics devices, etc), try:
- Arc
Thrift Store
2701 S College Ave.
267-8870
- Eco Thrift
208 N. Howes St.
484-4224
- Goodwill Industries
935 Eisenhower Blvd.
593-1032
E-bay
is also a good source for all types of stuff
Hardware (nuts, bolts, springs,
etc.)
- Ace Hardware
227 S. College Av.
224-4437
- Home Depot
1215 E. Magnolia
224-1239
4502 John F. Kennedy Pkwy.
206-0774
- Fastenal
2415 East Mulberry St Ste #3
482-2257
- McMasterCar
www.mcmaster.com
Hobby Supplies (small
motors and gear boxes, special materials and hardware)
- Hobby Town
3500 S. College Av. (in "The Square")
226-3900
- Hobby Lobby
4106 S. College Av.
223-3663
- Edmund Scientific
www.scientificsonline.com
(609) 573-6250
- American Science & Surplus
(847) 982-0870
Electronics (IC's, discrete
components, switches, photo-optic sensors, power sources)
local:
online:
General
Product Information
Mechanical
and Industrial Components (motors, gear boxes, accessories, etc.)
- Grainger
4531 Innovative Dr.
223-2100
- MSC Industrial
Supply
1-800-753-7990
- McMasterCar
www.mcmaster.com
- SDP/SI (variety of drive components)
Metal Stock
Materials (bars, plates, structural members, etc.)
- ERC
Tool Crib
491-8245
- Colorado Iron and Metal
(steel)
1400 E. Mulberry
482-7707
- Erickson Metals of Colorado
(aluminum)
Denver, CO
1-800 332-0160
- Alreco (aluminium
surplus supply)
11299 Brighton Road
Henderson, CO 80640
303-287-7210
- McMasterCar
www.mcmaster.com
Plastic Stock
Materials (sheets, tubes, rods, etc.)
- Alpha Plastics
201 Rome Ct.
482-0937
- Fort Collins Plastics
125 Swallow Rd
225-3835
- McMasterCar
www.mcmaster.com
Small
Parts (bearings, couplings, gears, springs, shafts, belts, pulleys, seals, etc.)