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Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
> ... Old-style pneumatics wouldn't
> benefit from air tanks simply because there is no practical use for air
> tanks in them
Exactly!
> > It is in this context that Christophe and I said that the air tank would
> > not work with the old style pneumatics.
>
> Because it did not rely on the concept of storing either air pressure or
> vacuum, it relied on the creation of air pressure and of vacuum to take that
> air pressure away.
That's right!
> In conventional models, one has a need to generate air pressure
> continuously, too.
Oh oh! Methinks you have not had the simple pleasure of playing with a
hand pump (the new type of course) and an air tank like in the 8250
Submarine or 8462 Tow Truck or such like. Try it!
> This is getting technical, I wonder if there's a lugnet.science or similar
> discussion group? :-)
No need, just build the model and try it out for yourself.
Nothing like the pleasure of finding things out, to quote Richard
Feynman :-)
--
C S Soh
CSSoh's Lego Pneumatics
http://www.geocities.com/cssoh1
... where air is power!
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| "c s soh" <cssoh@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message news:3C8076A2.E27D98....com.sg... (...) You most certainly can store vacuum. How would a TV set work, otherwise? When the tube is finally smashed or broken at the end of it's life, the vacuum (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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