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(...) Did you? Was it? Haha, I recall there was a long discussion on vacuum not a long time ago. CSSoh (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Sort of like a DPDT reversing switch arrangement? However, if you study how the LEGO pneumatic valve is built you know it's not going to work. Namely, it has a fourth exhaust port that's inaccessible. You'll have to plug up this port for your (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) The older style pumps didn't have a built in waist valve. (URL) If you connect an older pump to your compressor, then a hose from the pump to the centre port of the 2x4 "distribution block", (URL) one of the other ports (i can't remember which (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Never mind. I just figured out the answer to my own question. It was an easy one. (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Just out of curiosity, how would one go about creating a continuous vaccume? A temporary one can be created inside a piston by clogging one end, but how could one create a continuous vaccume? Would this need to be done in, say, an accumulator (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) This is a good question. When using traditional pressure only, the force producde by the air pressure on the faces of the pistons is enough to flip a switch. Just yesterday someone asked me "If instead of using pressure, you used vaccume" (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Your track design is extremely similar to one I've been working on Yours (URL) mine (URL) back view (URL) I wasn't going to publish mine till I'd finished the moc, but theirs no point waiting now. As you can see we've both used basically the (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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I am comtemplating the purchase of one of those one-way valves from the old pneumatic sets. I was wondering, if you set up a system in which one tank was pressure and one was vacuum, and applied both to a 2-cyl engine, would it turn with more power (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(URL) Hello! All you crane and excavator builders out there should like this one - At the link below are pictures of a huge crawler I've been working on: (URL) Like most of my recent projects it does not use Lego brand motors for power, I'm using a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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I drew this Mata Nui mask based on the original oval-stone look from 2001. The mask is drawn within a Golden rectangle & follows golden proportion. I just wanted to see if it would look good proportionally as Mata Nui is the 'great spirtit' of (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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