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By maneuver

March 12, 2009
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I have been looking around for the cheapes possible multi-directional (or omni-)wheels.

So far I've found these on ebay from UK.

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at roughly $4.50 (£3.29), but they only state shipping prices in UK. I've sent them a request for shipping to Norway, but in the mean time, I'm open for suggestions to other cheaper suppliers.

Do you guys know of any?

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By ignoblegnome
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 10:08
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How about the ones on the DAGU price list?
By ezekiel181
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 10:18
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A word from Oddbot on what the rollers are made of would be appreciated before putting down the money.
By robologist
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 11:45
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I'd asked about the rollers and Oddbot answered here.
By ezekiel181
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 12:31
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Thanks! A pity about the answer but I half expected them to be hard plastic anyway :)
By emuller
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 10:16
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well I already have wheel #3, and spiffy as they are, they're made of hard plastic. I am still in the process of finding out if the others have rollers made of hard plastic - I expect claudia has lots of things on her hands at present - I'm patient though.
By emuller
@ Tue, 2009-10-27 06:36
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So after my recent skidmarks.... I've been looking for more omnis too. and I found this thread here and thought I'd add to it.

For my purposes, I can't use omnis with hard plastic rollers. They get nowhere, so I looked around for ones with rubber grip on them. Here is what I found - a range of wheels from the same manufacturer as the one in the top image from ebay:

 http://www.kornylak.com/wheels/transwheel-specifications.html

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This note from the manufacturer:

"The difference in the FXA108 and the FXA 308 is that the rollers are different.  The FXA108 has standard nylon rollers and the FXA 308, our CAT-TRAK model, has synthetic rubber coated polypropylene rollers for "grip."" 

By NinjaTech (not verified) @ Sat, 2009-05-02 04:05
=D
By BaseOverApex
@ Thu, 2009-03-12 22:08
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I've never seen these in the UK before and I just bought 3. Watch this space. I feel a robot coming on which can move in any direction in 2D space.
By jklug80
@ Thu, 2009-03-12 15:56
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http://www.omniwheel.com/cgi-bin/plugins/MivaEmpresas/miva?plugins/MivaMerchants/merchant.mvc+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KCWD&Product_Code=RW29&Category_Code=Omniwheel

$2 per. You would probably want to pair them up though so I guess $4 per.

By maneuver
@ Thu, 2009-03-12 15:42
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http://www.euroroll.de has som really pretty ones for only €2.28 (about $2.90) for the single ones, and €4.68 for the double ones.

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but you have to buy for at least €50 so that's a 22 wheels minimum or 11 doubles like the one in the picture. And I think you have to pay shipping as well, but I'm not 100% sure what "delivery ex factory incl packaging" meens..

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