Pneumatic Piston

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<div align="center">PNEUMATIC PISTON

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This is my newest pneumatic. Finally I have a piston valve to call my own. This is the valve that I have been working on that is very easy to make. Anyone who has ever glued PVC together can make this valve. It looks a little odd, but I wasn't trying to make it look good. All I wanted was a valve that performs great and is easy to build. By these standards, this valve is perfect.

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Here is a close up of my valve. It sticks out a lot in the back because I chose not to use a 3&amp;quot; male plug and drill and thread the holes. Like I said, I wanted it to be buildable with as few tools as possible. Since I don't have a tap, I found this way to be a lot easier.
Here is a close up of my valve. It sticks out a lot in the back because I chose not to use a 3&quot; male plug and drill and thread the holes. Like I said, I wanted it to be buildable with as few tools as possible. Since I don't have a tap, I found this way to be a lot easier.
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A little sick humor. That's my cat in the top right corner.
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Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:44 pm

THat looks real nice, I like it. Can you get some videos of it or someting.

Is there a stand for it or do you have it on the ground or what?
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:33 pm

I have actually built a fully working Supah valve replicah, it works with the same principal as this one (I think), plus it is as powerful as joel's or maybe it's even more!!!!! mwahahahahha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:32 pm

syco kilaa wrote:I have actually built a fully working Supah valve replicah, it works with the same principal as this one (I think), plus it is as powerful as joel's or maybe it's even more!!!!! mwahahahahha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
thats awsome, you and joel might have to have a shoot off. hahaha
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Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:32 pm

I screwed up when i was making my piston valve!! Can you like show the inside of your l13. What did you make your piston out of?
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syco kilaa wrote:I have actually built a fully working Supah valve replicah, it works with the same principal as this one (I think), plus it is as powerful as joel's or maybe it's even more!!!!! mwahahahahha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
I'm telling you right now that what you say isnt so....
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Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:37 pm

yeah, i personally have one of joels' supah valves and im tellin u that it is the best u can get
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:51 am

the one he has here is a adaptatin of a hybrid valve design slightly modified to use pneumatic power and the blowgun instead of the blowout valve. the plans are somewhere one this site.
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Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:12 pm

id love to see a pic of the inside of a supah valve, im too cheap to buy it
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Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:25 pm

it'd probably cost more to build one till you got it just right, plus you know joel does this for a living and tests them before he sells them
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Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:27 am

Nice piston valve - I built one just like it. And yes, it was powerful. The piston inside it was too massive though. The valve stops weren't enough. Unfortunately it exploded on me and pieces of it went everywhere - even over top of my 2 story house. I survived with miraculously only a cut to the cheek. PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS WITH THIS DESIGN!

Now I own one a Supah Valve and would say there's nothing compared to it...unless you take a look at the 4" Supah Joel hasn't released yet. :lol:
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