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Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:20:33 GMT
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote:
[ceramic grease in pneumatic cylinders]
I've just tried this and it does make a significant improvement, especially
on older cylinders. With two old cylinders connected up in parallel, I found
that the treated one would extend and retract before the untreated one, and
when both were treated both became more or less equal again. I don't suppose
there is any chance of damage to the seals from this grease?

I hope there's no chance of damage :) I went for ceramic grease over
organic as I understand it's fairly inert. I'm no chemist though and I
don't even know what the seals are made from.

A check of my cylinders (which had this treatment about 18 months ago)
shows they are still holding pressure and in the transparent ones I
can't see any visible degradation of the seals. So far, so good.


Tim



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  Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
 
"Tim Auton" <tim.lugnet@uton.org> wrote in message (...) It was ceramic grease I used as well, from Tamiya. It's still working today :-) (...) Excellent! Jennifer (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
 
"Tim Auton" <tim.lugnet@uton.org> wrote in message (...) I've just tried this and it does make a significant improvement, especially on older cylinders. With two old cylinders connected up in parallel, I found that the treated one would extend and (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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