Thanks for the info Jim - but I'm afraid you're in for a scolding: How dare you post a picture of only a little bit of what looks to be a very nice aluminum pneumatic rib press - I gotta see the whole thing! Perhaps you posted pictures while I was off the list for 8 months or so. Would you be so kind as to post a good picture of the structure? My presses work great, but I think they are the funkiest-looking and heaviest presses I have seen! Terry Farrell On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:03 AM, jimialeggio wrote: > Been meaning to post this bit on "push-to-connect" pneumatic > fittings. I hadn't seen them mentioned on the archives, and the > pneumatic connections I have seen are really the long way around for > clamping applications where flow rate is not important. > > The connections really are push to connect, read very simple and > easy. They remove easily as well, by pressing a depressing a small > locking collar. > > I've been using them to actuate a pneumatic cylinder on my mortiser > for years, and Bruce Clark put me on to them again recently for > belly/rib press hose pneumatics. These are what M&H use on a daily > basis for their belly press as well as other operations. > > They are readily available, and pretty inexpensive. I got mine from: > > http://www.automationdirect.com/adc/Shopping/Catalog/Pneumatic_Components/Push-to-Connect_Pneumatic_Fittings_%28Thermoplastic%29 > > > -- > Jim Ialeggio > grandpianosolutions.com > 978- 425-9026 > Shirley, MA > > <bulhead (left), male connect(middle), tee(right).JPG><bulkead > fitting in hose.JPG><tees.JPG>
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