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Re: Parts Question about the Super Street Sensation...
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Thu, 5 Oct 2000 02:41:05 GMT
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Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm just a layman), but Lego's misnamed
"hydraulics" are just pneumatics.  Pneumatics refers to any system using
air, which is compressible.  Hydraulics is a completely different way of
doing things, it uses a noncompressible *liquid* to manipulate force in a
system.

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Paul Davidson

D M Garcia <dmglego@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G1xInL.Kx0@lugnet.com...
> 
> "Derick Bulkley" <Derick@derick.com> wrote in message
> news:G1x21E.2Mp@lugnet.com...
> > Many thanks, Bianca - this gives me a much better idea of their (un)
> > suitability to my application.
> That is what I meant about regular shocks not working in my first reply.
> The "hydraulics" function basically the same as shocks.
> 
> > BTW: since they are indeed pnuematic, why does the catalog describe them • as
> > hydraulic - idiot ad writer maybe??
> I think Lego wanted them to seem special somehow.  Even thought they are
> lubricated, I still don't see them as hydraulic.
> 
> 
> 



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  Re: Parts Question about the Super Street Sensation...
 
"Derick Bulkley" <Derick@derick.com> wrote in message news:G1x21E.2Mp@lugnet.com... (...) That is what I meant about regular shocks not working in my first reply. The "hydraulics" function basically the same as shocks. (...) as (...) I think Lego (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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