Maker Faire prep

steamer

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Mar 1, 2010, 12:41:10 PM3/1/10

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--Well last night I signed up for the Northern California Maker
Faire. This year I'm planning on displaying an array of homebrew
air-operated contraptions. I'm wondering if you lot can describe stuff you
may have seen that's related to the use of pneumatics or compressed air that
would lend itself to a tabletop display. At present I've got everything from a
pedal-operated benchtop drillpress to a modified nutsert tool and (hopefully)
some TurboNuts so I'm thinking the weirder the better.
--Suggestions welcome!

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Wes

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Mar 1, 2010, 5:55:26 PM3/1/10

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steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:

> --Well last night I signed up for the Northern California Maker
>Faire. This year I'm planning on displaying an array of homebrew
>air-operated contraptions. I'm wondering if you lot can describe stuff you
>may have seen that's related to the use of pneumatics or compressed air that
>would lend itself to a tabletop display. At present I've got everything from a
>pedal-operated benchtop drillpress to a modified nutsert tool and (hopefully)
>some TurboNuts so I'm thinking the weirder the better.
> --Suggestions welcome!

Well, I've heard that the Amish have windmills that run air compressors that run water
pumps. Somehow that fits in their framework of not being connected to the outside world
or whatever.

Wes
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Robert Swinney

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Mar 1, 2010, 10:04:23 PM3/1/10

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Wes sez: "Well, I've heard that the Amish have windmills that run air compressors that run water

pumps. Somehow that fits in their framework of not being connected to the outside world
or whatever".

Good crack, Wes. Love it!! Kinda reminds me of what my Dad always said about such things, "If
that's religion, I don't want any."

Bob Swinney

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steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:

> --Well last night I signed up for the Northern California Maker
>Faire. This year I'm planning on displaying an array of homebrew
>air-operated contraptions. I'm wondering if you lot can describe stuff you
>may have seen that's related to the use of pneumatics or compressed air that
>would lend itself to a tabletop display. At present I've got everything from a
>pedal-operated benchtop drillpress to a modified nutsert tool and (hopefully)
>some TurboNuts so I'm thinking the weirder the better.
> --Suggestions welcome!

Martin H. Eastburn

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Mar 1, 2010, 11:04:56 PM3/1/10

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Seems to me a pump is good for 32'. Just maybe adding an air compressor
might just extend it. Humm.

Martin

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Mar 2, 2010, 12:31:15 PM3/2/10

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steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote in news:4b8bfc36$0$1640
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> --Suggestions welcome!

How about a pneumatic knife blade honer?

Fit a thin diamond hone to a push-pull device such as a sheet-metal saw
with the hone on edge then simply clamp the knife blade so that it's at the
appropriate angle.