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Re: Pre-charing pneumatic air tank

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Considering that the goal is to end up with a fully-pressurized pneumatic system, I would expect that unplugging air hoses would be problematic.
I was envisioning a variant of the poor man's tubing plug: bend the tubing over sharply, and zip-tie around both legs of the bend to stop the air. I admit I've never tried that with an already-pressurized tube (and don't particularly recommend it either way).

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I can't see any benefit in doing (or pretending to do) such a double swap, so I doubt that was the intent.
To charge the tanks right before the match, yet still have a cool compressor for use during the match?