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| (...) I'm glad if I saved you some bucks. The fourth exhaust port is a necessity (for the cylinders to work) and a nuisance (being inaccessible). I first learned about it from Erik Brok's site. In real-life pneumatics, this port would be brought out (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.technic, Andrew Meyer wrote: "...if you set up a system in which one tank was pressure and one was vacuum, and applied both to a... 90d phase shift 2 cyl engine... so that when one side of a cylinder had pressure applied, the other would (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Dr. Soh, Nice to hear from you. I've never actually built with the original pneumatics, but my understanding is that the way to use switches in the old pneumatics is different than the way you use them with dual ported pistons. Don't you (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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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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