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Re: Bungy and Surgical tubing

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Originally Posted by Bruceb View Post
If you are worried about the piston breaking itself because it hits the end stop to hard to many times then Bimba does sell pistons with adjustable air cushions at one or both ends.
Bruce
Actually I'm worried that the 20 inches per second piston speed has been claimed (by multiple persons posting to CD) to have been given from Bimba Customer Support representatives.
As far as I know, no one with any expertise has stated equivocally under which conditions that it is SAFE to ignore 20 IPS guide on piston speed.

I typically choose to considered it likely to be deemed unsafe by thoughtful robot inspectors unless an expert vouches for the SAFETY of the configuration.

If leaving a piston attached to a "bow" when shooting an arrow is an engineering acceptable use of pneumatic piston, will someone with expertise in the failure modes of actuators please confirm?