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Re: Maximum bore/stroke length for cylinders?

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Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes View Post
Get single acting pistons if you can, otherwise you'll need 8 tanks.
Yep. Ours is double acting, but we could get away with firing it once using 4 tanks, yes?

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Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14 View Post
Have you found anyone who sells these? I'm sure they have them but remember that it might be the heaviest single part of your robot and will definitely take away from your weight/pneumatic budgets.
Our coach acquired them through the typical BIMBA voucher in our rookie season. He had no idea how large they were and we've just had them laying around. I took a look and thought they might be effective for this year.