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Re: pneumatics along an telescopic boom....
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:04 GMT
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Hi Gerard,
I've been known to route hoses through #1 axle connectors with hose, holes
in technic brick, and other technic holes. You'd only be able to do this at
the end of each telescoping segment, but at least then they would fold
instead of just hanging.
Kevin
In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes:
> Most people who have built telescopic booms use them for cranes... I am not
> building a crane. However I am using a telescopic boom, and I need movement
> at the end of the boom. Unfortunately i do not have a micromotor. I do have
> pneumatics, so i need to find a way to extend a boom by about 30 studs and
> have pneumatic hoses go inside it. But to keep it to scale the boom is 4
> studs wide and the boom that comes out is 2 studs wide. One row of studs is
> used for the track, leaving me with one row of studs. So by attaching 2 flex
> hoses together i can get tubes along the boom but i can`t find a way to
> orderly deal with the airhoses needed whn the boom is extended.right now it
> just comes out the back and looks stupid with 35cm of tubes hanging there.
> Any ideas what might work? I could run air tubes on the outside of the
> boombut then i have lose hoses around the extending boom and no way to deal
> with those. In real machinery they just fold inside, but i don`t have room
> for that... any ideas?
>
> Gerard
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