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Nick Taylor wrote:
> Rcvd my pneumatic components yesterday ... and
> am having doubts about their practicality. The smaller
> cylinder and pump (5116 & 5117) are not powerful
> enough to do much of amything of any use.
The small cylinders are of great use for actuators & orther small "switching"
tasks... not good for lifting.
> The
> larger set (5107 & 5108) have enough power to
> lift and hold a full can of beer ... but powering the
> pump is a problem. The 5225 motor (the one that
I have been disappointed in the "compressor" pump... It does not generate a very
consistant presure, and it seems to have been designed poorly as there is no
arrangement of technic parts that I can conceive of that will move the compressor
through a full stroke... it's either 2/3 of a stroke or stall. I think that if I
had one of those blue storage tanks, I would be much happier with the compressor
though, because then I ccould run it all the time and even at 2/3 stroke, it
should be able to keep the tank presurized.
--Karim
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| (...) I'll soon post photos of the double pump I designed based on the single cylinder one on Mike?'s site. It has a smoother power stroke when the tank fills up. I still need to design a regulator though. The small cylinder is used as the bucket (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| Rcvd my pneumatic components yesterday ... and am having doubts about their practicality. The smaller cylinder and pump (5116 & 5117) are not powerful enough to do much of amything of any use. The larger set (5107 & 5108) have enough power to lift (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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