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Re: Pneumatic Pump Testing Goes Hi Tech
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 04:27:00 GMT
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> Well, the markings say "TIRE PRESSURE GAUGE" at the top and "TRU-FLATE"
> at the bottom. It reads to 60 psi. No other markings to indicate its
> manufacture.
> TRU-FLATE tire pressure guages are made by Stant. If you search the Web for
> "Tru-Flate" you will find several stores that sell them. I have been using a
> digital tire guage (like the one originally suggested on Soh Chio's site) up
> until now to calibrate my pressure sensor (which I bought on e-Bay), but the
> TRU-FLATE dial looks a better approach.
Thanks for the information. I'm going to see if I can get hold of one of
these...
> With all this talk of pneumatics going on, I feel I must inform you that all
> my current and pending creations hardly use pneumatics at all, I've binned
> them in favour of something more suited to my needs. I'd love to tell you
> but you'll have to wait till I do a whole website.
I use pneumatics mainly where brute strength is needed rather than smooth
motion, such as the raising/lowering mechanism on a crane (although this
situation occurs quite often :-) ). Otherwise I pretty much go for flex
cables running on networks of pulleys or cams...
-Gaurav Thakur, raving madman
Can be reached at cp5670@supermail.com
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