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| (...) I'd love to see a picture of your reversor, as verbal explanations by themselves are often much harder to comprehend. (...) Again, I'd like to see this. My pneumatic mux that can act as a polarity reversor, can just as easily be used for an (...)   (22 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic) 
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| (...) The amount that a fluid can be compressed varies with the fluid, the temperature, the pressure and other things. Water can be compressed too much - that's why trucks don't use it for their hydraulic systems. Hydraulic fluid is special oil that (...)   (22 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic) 
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| (...) I get the impression you've complicated things by putting different switches at different lever angles. My reverser idea puts the switch lever pivots 16mm apart, all in a line with 2-beams between: BSBSBSBSB along a beam of length 17 holes, so (...)   (22 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic) 
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| In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Actually this multiplexer is more efficient because it uses less parts: (URL)   (22 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic) 
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| <snip> (...) Hi Mark, I've thought about this in the past, and ruled it out because it is such a specialty. Do you think there is a big enough market to justify a book on this topic? Kevin    (22 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic) 
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