This kit provides enough hardware to mount your constant force spring to your elevator structure. Includes a 16.5 pound 48" inch travel constant force spring, 2 solid aluminum brackets and assorted hardware.

Thrifty Elevator is designed to work with the various brands of 2 in. x 1 in. aluminum box extrusion of any wall thickness on the market. Your team can work with what they like – REV MAXTube, VEX VersaFrame, or simply plain 2" x 1" from your aluminum metal supplier of choice. You bring the 2" x 1" tubing, hex shaft, structural fasteners and gearboxes and we’ll provide the rest.

The Thrifty Bushing is a nylon bushing that works with 13.75 mm diameter style hex shaft. This bushing is recommended for low-load applications and will allow you to package mechanisms into even smaller form factors. Thriftybot recommends greasing bushings prior to use.

Need to help teams at your event get on the low rung bar? Only have a few hours to help them accomplish this task? No problem with the Thrifty Every Climb Hooks!

This 5M HTD aluminum pulley 2 pack will allow teams to create larger single belt reductions with a common 1/2" hex interface.

Affordable and durable 2 inch squish wheels are now available. These wheels are commonly used by competitive robotics teams to move game pieces throughout their robot.

These wheels ship in packs of 10 for $3 per wheel and feature:

• 30A durometer TPE rubber material for maximum squishability
• .375 inch hex hole, intended to be stretched and used on 1/2 inch hex shafts or other larger OD tubes. Each wheel is 1/2 inch thick.
• Weight: .038 lbs per wheel
• STEP CAD file available

These aluminum 5M HTD Pulleys work great for creating belt reductions directly off the motor. Use a 15mm wide belt or two 9mm wide belts as the inside pulley teeth are 18.5mm wide. Choose either 8mm keyed bore or spline bore depending on the motor type you're using.

These aluminum 5M HTD Pulleys work great for creating belt reductions directly off the motor. Use a 15mm wide belt or two 9mm wide belts as the inside pulley teeth are 18.5mm wide. Choose either 8mm keyed bore or spline bore depending on the motor type you're using.

Tired of hex clamp collars that cost an arm and a leg? Tired of stripping out the set screw on your clamp collar? Need to add a collar in an assembly and don't want to remove everything from your hex shaft?

Me too! I've ran into all of the above scenarios multiple times building multiple robots. These collars are the holy grail -

• split so they can easily be added or removed
• lightweight 6061 aluminum
• .5 oz (.031 lbs) for one hex collar
• uses two 8-32 socket head cap screws that require a 9/64" allen wrench
• $4.00 per collar, sold in 5 packs
• anodized black for awesomeness

General Dimensions:

• When clamped on 1/2 inch hex shaft - approx 1.2 inch outer diameter
• 0.40 inches wide
• STEP file CAD Model Available

Base Stage Kit + Add 2nd Stage Kit - Designed for 1.5" box to 1" box tubing

Elevate your robot to new heights with the Thrifty Telescoping Tube System Kit. This kit includes all the hardware to attach to stock 1/16" thick 2" x 2", 1.5" x 1.5" & 1" x 1" box extrusions and allows them to passively extend with the assistance of constant force springs.

1 inch wide, 10 foot long length of black 3 ply neoprene rubber tread. This tread is the same as 5994K1 but is already cut to a convenient 1 inch width. Nominal thickness is .30 inches. Weight of a spool is 1.13 lbs

1.5 inch wide, 10 foot long length of black 3 ply neoprene rubber tread. This tread is the same as 5994K1 but is already cut to a convenient 1.5 inch width. Nominal thickness is .30 inches. Weight of a spool is 1.77 lbs

The original vectored intake wheel, now with even more options. This wheel design was battle tested and match proven on many FRC robots during the 2020 season. These wheels help with redirecting game objects while imparting lateral force, helping to move game pieces either left or right in the direction you desire.

The Thrifty Clamping Bearing Block provides teams a quick and easy way to capture 1.125" OD flanged bearings when mounting to 2" x 1" or 1" x 1" box extrusion. Simply drill a pass thru clearance hole and insert the bearing which is then trapped against the extrusion wall's material.

Features include -

• Clamps around 2" x 1" or 1" x 1" extrusions
• Two counterbored 10-32 holes 2" apart allow for mounting of planetary gearboxes or 2" bolt circle motors
• #8 holes on a 1.875" diameter bolt circle allow for usability in existing FRC applications
• 6061 Aluminum material anodized black

Kit includes:

- Two black anodized plates

- Four 10-32 1.5" long button head bolts

- Two 10-32 0.50" long bolts

Bearings are NOT included with this kit

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

STEP CAD file available

Layout Drawing available