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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
What pneumatic tools do you use that can't easily be swapped out for a motor-driven equivalent?
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Stuff we have already. We have pneumatic shears that are really awesome when cutting lots of lexan, but we don't want to spend $300 on new electric ones.
The main reason we bring a compressor is to use a nozzle and clear off chips and stuff like that.
Also, we use a pneumatic ratchet to allow us to get loosen/tighten bolts that are in tight spots. We've had some that we couldn't get with any other tool.
A few more-
pneumatic riveter, nail gun (wooden robots!), pneumatic cut-off tools (only $8 at harbor freight!). We use pneumatic drills sometimes to test mechanisms instead of a normal drill because they spin much quicker.