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Hey does anyone know where we can buy extra suction cups? And the hardware for that.
One source is McMaster-Carr - search for "vacuum cups". They start on page 2602 about half-way down and there's a bunch more types on the next page.
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One source is McMaster-Carr - search for "vacuum cups". They start on page 2602 about half-way down and there's a bunch more types on the next page.
Or try your local PIAB rep.
http://www.piab.com/Templates/FrontPage.aspx?id=5384
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Hey guys,
I'd appreciate if anyone posted here a picture of the vacuum cup, i'm from brazil, the kit didn't arrive here, yet.
anything will do,
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Re: Vacuums!

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Hey does anyone know where we can buy extra suction cups? And the hardware for that.
Try the manufacturer's web site, there's a list of them on the FIRST website.

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You will have to present a good case to convince me that the cmpressor can be use as vacuum device
The compressor itself, no, but using the air output to power a vacuum generator as supplied in the KOP works surprisingly well.

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I'd appreciate if anyone posted here a picture of the vacuum cup, i'm from brazil, the kit didn't arrive here, yet.
See the links in Post #7 of this thread, you can see it very well.

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That is true. But, the Compressor comes under the rules R99 to R106. You will have to present a good case to convince me that the cmpressor can be use as vacuum device
Im just messin around, the compressor is not made to be a vaccuum, and there are plenty of other ways to make a very useful vaccuum if thats the route you look to take
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Re: Vacuums!

Reversing the compressor is a bad idea. Especially when we have a venturi vacuum generator that works perfectly fine with compressed air. Plus the advantages of using the compressor are that multiple functions can be powered by the compressed air it generates.

There are other, non-pneumatic, ways of producing a vacuum. Driving a piston with a motor works, but relies on a good seal (you can only evacuate the length of the piston). Drawing a good seal is still important for continous vacuum device, such as the venturi or a KOP motor+impeller, but since these type are always drawing in air, loss of seal doesn't mean loss of object.

One other disadvantage (or advantage) of piston type suction devices are that once the seal is made, the amount of suction is determined by how far the piston rod moves. Since continous type are open to atmospheric pressure the vacuum is determined by other things like air flow rate and pressure or motor speed.

If you are using pneumatics this year, the venturi pump is great. If you not going with a pnuematics a KOP motor with an impeller (FP with an impeller from a small shop vaccum worked great in '04) will work and can fairly small and light (you only near the small motor, impeller (plastic), and a housing).
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There are other, non-pneumatic, ways of producing a vacuum. Driving a piston with a motor works, but relies on a good seal (you can only evacuate the length of the piston).
Not true. Just be more creative and you'll figure it out.
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In my experience in custom airbrushing, due to the way the pumps move the air they dont create a substantial vacum on thier own. Idk about the first pumps but I know if i try using mine to suck it heats up fast.
I would NOT recommend hooking your pumps in reverse, due to the fact they were never built to work that way. (otherwise there would not need to be a resona to color-code the wires )
They (the copresssors) make the same air pressure when wired backwards, (don't argue), the problem is the cooling fan runs the wrong way and the compressor will overheat early.
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Not true. Just be more creative and you'll figure it out.
I can think of being able to evacuate with a partial throw and continue to slightly move the piston as one way.

Another way is when the end of the stroke is reached, switch the vacuum side of the piston to atmospheric pressure (solenoid with other outlet blocked) and move piston to starting position, swithc to open to the suction device again and then continue to evacuate.

Or the third is to run two connected pistons driven by a crank shaft with switching between the two vacuum chambers via solenoid.

The third is the most complex and closest to a continous vacuum. The second you have to stop for a bit to move and the first you still are stuck at the end of the throw.

edit: actually a single piston would work for the third. Just use a solenoid to switch because either way you pull/push the piston you will get a vacuum. Still this isn't continous because of the stops at the ends of motion. Also without care the switching may introduce enough atmospheric air to break the seal.
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They (the copresssors) make the same air pressure when wired backwards, (don't argue), the problem is the cooling fan runs the wrong way and the compressor will overheat early.
I forgot to mention the obvious for this earlier the compressor uses check valves in the head so even if you run the motor backwards its still a positive displacement pump.
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Re: Vacuums!

So, vaccums don't count as pnematics. That leads me to two questions. One, if you run pneumatic devices with a vaccum, will they just work in reverse?
Second, if they work, does that mean we can forgo the pneumatc rules and use whatever actuators we want?
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Re: Vacuums!

So do any of you guys know if you are allowed to use bigger suction cups?
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Re: Vacuums!

You can use bigger suction cups

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Re: Vacuums!

Is there an image/scematic for the most basic vacuum system using solenoids and the air storage tanks?? can you please post a url to it or maybe email it to me?
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Is there an image/scematic for the most basic vacuum system using solenoids and the air storage tanks?? can you please post a url to it or maybe email it to me?
Wait a sec... That won't work. There's simply no way to run the kit Vacuum Generator (VG) an entire round solely from tanked air.

Unless you are generating vacuum with a kit motor and a pump assembly, you'll need the compressor, just to operate the VG. The kit VG is a Venturi device. Think of a soda straw that you blow across, to raise the liquid in a drink cup. It works like that. So, the VG is going to require constant airflow running through it just to operate, whether or not you're holding ANYTHING. Without a compressor, you'd run out of tanked air in only a few seconds after the very first time you activated your vacuum generator!

The basic schematic for a compressor based system is shown in the 2007 Pneumatics Manual. (See the sticky link for it at the top of the Pneumatics Forum.)

That said... *IF* you can come up with a vacuum pump assembly that you can hack to be run by a kit motor, NOW you have something! Your simplest move would be to design a "reversable air pump", and directly connect it to your suction cup. Run it one way to stick, and reverse the motor to blow-off the ringer.

If that's not possible, you'll need to either vent the line between your motor based homebrew VG & suction cup with a valve of some kind (the kit valves won't work for this app - they require pilot air pressure to work at all), or else inject compressed air with a separate valve into the line. (The latter IS possible with kit valves, but the system is more complex than a venting solution, since you're right back to requiring stored air or a compressor, JUST to run the kit valves!)

Does this answer your question?

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