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Re: Plumbing, Wiring, and Controlling a 3 Position Cylinder

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Originally Posted by T^2 View Post
I'm not sure how it is possible so send air "into" a cylinder rod. It looks like the the darkest gray in the picture (gradient) is the cavity in which the rods can slide back and forth, and the lightest gray is where air can enter, but not a rod. I think air can flow freely between the light gray and dark gray sections, and the boundary simply indicates where the rod stops.
Yeah, I did a pretty poor job describing what I meant.

The solid light grey areas (where you can see the cutaways of the threaded ports), don't seem to allow the air from the ports to actually go anywhere (except for the port on the blind end of the cylinder).

If the cylinder is built like the diagram in Travis' post shows, then there is clearance around the rod to allow airflow, but as it is, I'm not seeing it.
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