Connecting two ends of pneumatic tubing?

[AndyBare]

Originally Posted by dradel

wouldn't use pneumatic tubing use poly cord
http://www.wcproducts.net/catalogsea...lt/?q=polycord

Yeah I +1 to that. My team had a habasit sponsorship years ago, and we used this material for our 2012 intake. It was very similar to what you may see this year. Our bot utilized an elevator intake, which then dropped gamepieces into a gravity-fed shooter. The polycord was wrapped around rubber coated shafts (grooves for the polycords were cut into the rubber, allowing them to find their places, and helping them to stay on track.

[Edit] I would like to add that we used round polycord.

[FrankJ]

Keep in mind pneumatic tube comes in a wide variety of plastics. Some would be useful in this application, some not so much. Better to use polycord as others have said.

[pipsqueaker]

Use polycord, pneumatic tubing isn't nearly as flexible as an intake would require it to be

The plugs are good, but in my experience with polycord they're not immune to failing.

Some plastic-metal superglue will do the trick though. I like to use a bit to bond the plug to the tube, mate the two ends, and then glue those mated ends together as well