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Re: CD auto feeder project
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 5 May 2004 01:49:27 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
David Glynn wrote:

Steve, I took a ride in the "internet way back machine" (google it) and found
this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030605111923/http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~stehlik/wwpics.html

Aha! Yes - that's the beastie I was thinking of.

I always forget about the way-back machine.

I didn't know it was possible to create a vacume with the Lego pneumatic parts.

Well, re-reading it, it's evident that he's using old pneumatic parts that you can't
get anymore.

Fortunately, the situation isn't quite so dire:

http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?invXrefID=15324&invType=F
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?invItemID=1372&invType=F

There's actually quite a bit more available now than when I picked up much of my
old pneumatic stuff a year or so ago.

Mark



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  Re: CD auto feeder project
 
Thanks Mark! This is turning out to be easier then I thought - now if only I could remember where I hide my credit card! "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hx7x2F.p9u@lugnet.com... (...) found (...) (URL) > (...) pneumatic (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) I always forget about the way-back machine. (...) Well, re-reading it, it's evident that he's using old pneumatic parts that you can't get anymore. However, his problem was to produce a really strong vacuum - enough to hold the whole weight of (...) (20 years ago, 4-May-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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