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Originally Posted by Finnster
That's a lot of money in all those Nycoil fittings. lol
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Alot of money in fittings, and we get this stuff for (essentially) free. Every year, with the new robotics game, we receive a kit of parts with some basic stuff in there, to help teams get started, and to cut down orders to the suppliers who normally offer it. Every year, we get some pneumatic stuff in that kit, and every year we never use it, so we stockpiled it all.
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Originally Posted by Finnster
That tubing is only rated for ~150psi, so be careful (assuming its poly-u.) I doubt those compressors go over that tho.
Stuff like that is fun to build.
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We already had a 250 lb guy jump up and down directly on the piston, and we haven't had a rupture. If it can hold that, it can withstand 200lbs of kids lying in the middle of the bed, where their mass is only being rotated, not lifted.
And when aren't pneumatics fun? My saying is "when the winds of change blow hard enough, they can turn even the most trivial of things into deadly projectiles."
If you want to, we'll let you know when the bed is finished if you want to come on down and check it out. It won't be that far of a drive for ya