SunWind's Suppliers

Technology Teaching Systems - motors, pulley-wheels, gears, 4 mm (5/32") dowel, wood
    TTS is a U.K. company with branches in Canada and the United States. Suppliers of hands-on elementary mechanical technology tools and supplies. Wonderful saws, great drills, wood, bench-hooks, jointers...designed for children to use in making great inventions. Supply your children with tools and materials! Let them build!  'Nuff said.

Ever Step Development  - solar panels
    Ever Step Development in Hong Kong supplies the smaller solar panels, and is a supplier of a large amount of the world's solar toys and gizmos. Their usual minimum order quantity is $10,000 US.

Richco, Inc. - motor mounting clips
    Richco specializes in quality plastic products, many of them for the electrical industry. Their Quick Clip #KKU-12-RT (meant for holding cable) is commonly used by educational suppliers as a hobby motor mounting clip. It has a one-time-use sticky-back and conveniently holds small electrical motors in almost any place. Electrical supply stores, if they don't have them, can get them.

Bear Woods Supply Co. Ltd   - wooden disks
   Bear Woods supplies wood parts for woodworkers and talented craftspeople. Their wooden disk, #WN-150, is a 1-1/2" diameter smooth wooden disk 1/8" thick. SunWind makes wooden wheels by drilling a 5/32" hole through the center of these disks.

Lee's Aquarium & Pet Products  - vinyl tubing [for inline shaft retainers]
    "- a U.S. manufacture of pet products. This site provides product information for consumers, retailers, distributors, and exporters. Lee's does not sell products online."  Still, this is the best-fit brand of airline tubing I've found for fitting snugly onto TTS' 4 mm wooden dowel [DOWEL4], and is available locally from retail Pet Supply Stores.

Acklands-Grainger  - screw eyes
    This industrial supply company sells us screw eyes. The ones used in the kits are Androck #5402. The dowel and tubing work well with this size.

Hi-Tech Seals   - tires
    This industrial seal company sells us o-rings in bulk, and we call them "tires". The different sizes that we use to match TTS' pulley/wheels are shown below.