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    Re: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart! —David C. Pyatt
    Think about using a hand tire pump to inflate a tire/tyre... it only has the capacity of the cylinder you are pumping... compare that to running a pnematic pump with no tank... you could never pump fast enought to keep up with an air chisel... Now (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart! —John Jensen
   (...) There are compressors that could keep up with that (and more), nut you wouldn't want to connect the to your legos:) (...) I've been toying a bit with pneumatics, and I really like them, have a few tanks too, but I'm not sure how good they are. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        RE: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart! —Ralph Hempel
     John Jensen wrote... (...) Thanks John. Here's the URL in case some new folks don't know where the design is... (URL) (...) There is a regulator I designed using the polarity switch at... (URL) (...) Ahhh. I just got the BarCode Truck in the mail a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart! —John Jensen
     (...) Ahh yes:) But the CodePilot does more than make noises, I have a regulator implemented with a small cylinder with rubberbands (for retraction) which touches one of the switches, when pressurised enough, when that happens I let the compressor (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Codepilot (Re: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart!) —Jürgen Stuber
     (...) Yes. (...) Has anybody tried putting a touch sensor on an input of the code pilot and an input of the RCX simultanously? I have a light scanner that consists of a light sensor, a motor and a touch sensor for the rear position. The motor (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Inexpensive air tank found at WalMart! —David C. Pyatt
   I guess I jumped around a little in my analogy... (...) (A HAND PUMP) fast enought to keep up (...) ... (...) Agreed... (...) What do you think of a bladder-filled air tank similar to a water tank? Would it have any advantages? Dave (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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