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Re: Flex tube material
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:53:16 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Philip Ogston writes:
Of course, it's too small to actually function as pneumatic tubing.
Phil

Sorry to reply to my own message, I just knew that I couldn't actually write
anything that short.

Actually, the thin rubbery tubes have the same inner diameter as regular
pneumatic tubes, even though the outer diameter is considerably smaller.  I
still haven't found a use for it, unless you need to pass a flexible pneumatic
tube through a small hole...

Phil



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  Re: Flex tube material
 
(...) Hmm, same inner diameter -- that would mean they'd work just fine as pneumatic tubes, then, right? (Unless they'd *pop* because they're too thin? :) --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Flex tube material
 
(...) I noticed the floppy tubes too, there are short pieces of it in yellow in both 8250 (search sub) and 8503 (throwbot scuba). I tend to think of it as thin pneumatic tubing, rather than floppy flex tubing, perhaps because in both these sets it's (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)

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