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Subject: 
Pneumatic Air Compressor not working. Suggestions needed.
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Date: 
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:33:50 GMT
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My CAT 797 Mining Truck is near completion. Everything works the way I
wanted accept for the air compressor. I bought new pneumatic parts from PLD
and tested my mechanism with the large hand held pump. Everything worked
fine so I built a few versions of air compressors found on these websites.
http://legolinks.tripod.com/Pneumatic.htm Using one small pump seems to work
better than using two yet, neither version works well enough to move my
mechanism. When using the large hand held pump all I needed to do was pump
15-20 times into the air tank and everything works fine. I could use some
suggestions on how to fix this problem.



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  Re: Pneumatic Air Compressor not working. Suggestions needed.
 
(...) I am guessing that your compressor is stalling out before you get enough pressure. The pressure in the compressor is high enough to react the torque of the motor. The fact that you have better results using one cylinder instead of two supports (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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