Pneumatic Tubing

[Matt Howard]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

If you are going to use it for pneumatics, the answer is NO. You will severely degrade the operating and burst pressure of the tube.

If you plan on using it for belting material, then yes it will work ... but the degraded strength of the joint may fail (IE when you melt polyurethane tubing it gets weaker but will bond together)

You cannot use heat to "weld" the pneumatic tubing, as the tubing actually expands with heat. But yes, we used barb fittings. The connection created is so strong, that another mentor and I pulled as hard as we could on a link we made, then gave had a student pull as well and only after about 2 minutes of straining we finally got it to pop open.

The joints created by the barbs are very strong.