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Re: Home-made One-way valve
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Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:36:10 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAIL.NETstopspam>
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Jared wrote:

you can store the vacuum in the LEGO tank or any other tank for that matter,

...the whole concept of "storing vacuum" is a little disturbing.  :-)

Perhaps "lowering the air pressure" in the tank would be a little more
reasonable!

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  Re: Home-made One-way valve
 
(...) matter, (...) Well said, Steve, I agree. A tank is simply a container whose inner gas (air in this case) can have a different pressure from the one outside. This pressure can be higher or lower than the one of the air in the environment, but (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Home-made One-way valve
 
(...) Yes, you can store vacuum. But all you can store is 1 atmosphere. So a little blue tank with 4 atmospheres has a lot more storage than one with negative 1 atmosphere! Also, it's real hard to make vacuum, in the real world. I once built a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Home-made One-way valve
 
(...) you can store the vacuum in the LEGO tank or any other tank for that matter, but the technic pumps will not work for this unless you do a bit of work to figure this out: if you hook an old style pump straight to a valve (dont know which pin (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)

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