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    Re: info on pneumatics —Mike McFarlane
   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)
   
        Re: info on pneumatics —Ian Sinclair
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: info on pneumatics —Jonathan Brown
   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)
   
        Re: info on pneumatics —Robert G. Fay
    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)
   
        Re: info on pneumatics —Mike McFarlane
   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)
   
        Re: info on pneumatics —James Powell
   (...) 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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