Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "flying" tools around the shop was Re: re: air bearings

Yes, I understand now...your building an air cushion "vehicle".

Thanks, Smoke

>Let's give a simple 'real world' application. You take a sheet of ply
>wood about 16 inches square (or circular). You drill a hole in the
>middle to fit your shopvac hose (or glue a shopvac fitting above the
>hole for the vac hose to 'plug into'. Stand on the disk, hold on to
>something for support, and have someone turn on the shopvac (in
>the "BLOW AIR OUT" mode!!!)...
>
>You're Flying!!! Not very high, and as you lean you can
>easily "ground" yourself.
>
>Now let's put some closed cell weatherstripping foam tape around the
>perimeter of the ply disk and try again...
>
>This time, you have better results since the foam acts as a 'gasket'
>to accomodate differences in the floor and load movements...
>
>The 'bag' referred to originally is a 'containment cushion' (means
>air filled 'tube' of material fastened around the perimeter of the
>platform which performs the same function as the foam tape in the
>example. The air to 'fill it' is taken from the shopvac input by
>venting a portion of the input air into the 'tube'). This is used
>for 'flying over rougher terrain'.
>
>In all cases, the air escapes at the perimeter of the lifting
>platform, but at a slower(lower) rate than it is being introduced (by
>the shop vac, in our examples). This differential (more in than out)
>results in an air 'cushion' which floats the ????(whatever).
>
>Again, try to see one of the 'refrigerator flyers' if you can. It is
>easier understood 'seen' than explained.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Ballendo
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