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Re: flexible tubbing
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 04:04:37 GMT
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Larry Andersen <NEONGLASS@EARTHLINK.NETihatespam>
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Your best bet is to find a supplier of gum rubber tubing. Scientific
supply houses or neon making suppliers should have it. It's the softest
rubber I've ever found.
Larry
At 11:40 PM 12/15/98 +0000, you wrote:
> I am looking for a pneumatic tubing substitute that is a great deal more
> flexible than the rubber tubing supplied by Lego. If anyone has ideas, or
> experiences I would be grateful to hear about them.
>
> The application (simply) has tubing running between a support boom, and a
> processing head (gripper of sorts) that uses pneumatics. The boom and head
> are attached by a "universal-joint", and the head dangles freely. Current
> use of the tubing puts to much restriction in the mobility of the processing
> head.
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> One idea I had was to use a coiled tube (something like a phone cord) but I
> never found anything. I need to run a total of 4 lines to the processing
> head.
>
> Thanks
>
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