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| Jonathan (...) Sounds OK to me, what are you using to pump air directly into the pneumatic cylinders? Have you got some sort of electric pump (maybe a homegrown Lego one), a bicycle pump ...?? I quite like the idea of a Lego pump powered with some (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Hello Mike; You missed an excellent discussion about compressors and a compressor test stand built out of LEGO just a little while ago. You could probably search Lugnet for the discussion. Some very useful web pages by others are: (URL) for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| Mike -- I was going to put you up a bunch of links to compressors, but I see that Ian Sinclair has already taken care of that. I have also heard of people using compressed air cans (you know, the ones for blowing the fluff off computers, photo (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| JP Brown <envcons@csi.com> wrote in message news:3823B200.ED7049...csi.com... (...) the large pumps, (...) reversibly so (...) pump (if you ever (...) I have removed the springs and reinstalled them by screwing (or winding) them off the button. It (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hi All Thanks for all the great info on pneumatics. I'm just playing around with a few of the ideas, and I'll let you know if I come up with anything good. I found a source for tubing. The RS catalogue contains Silicon tubing of 3 m length, with a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Mike (and all) I would try your local builders, or try talking to your local model engineering club. Over here (in Canada) you can get PVC tubing for 17 cents (about 9 P) a foot. It works great for distance tubing (like points on a lego (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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