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RE: CD auto feeder project
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 6 May 2004 00:30:56 GMT
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Original-From:
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Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@earthlink#nospam#.net>
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> That would definitely be a problem. Those hoses are designed to hold
> pressure.
> When you suck hard on them, they tend to collapse flat. Also, you have to
> remove
> not only the air under the suction cup - but also the air inside the hose.
> The
> longer the hose, the more air you have to remove in order to drop the
> pressure
> under the suction cup by the same amount.
Don't those hard plastic tubes fit over the cylinder connectors? I know they
can bind the flexible hoses, so a small "boot" to bridge the gap wouldn't be
able to suck together very much.
That would reduce the problem of length, at least.
Andy
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: CD auto feeder project
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| (...) >> suction and pushing the cylinder down again releases it. (...) Yes - the yellow ones on the left. The 'normal' use for those things is to pump air in the bottom tube to make the cylinder extend - or pump air in the top to make it contract. (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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