[TheForge] air table

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

Pegboard would require a hell of a compressor to create enough volume to lift anything with a large area.  Pegboard holes are pretty big.  


CraigS
Gresham, OR

>From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>Date: 2008/03/13 Thu PM 03:31:42 CDT
>To: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>, 
	Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] air table

>Terry...
>almost any perforated rigid surface ought to suffice,with an 
>adequate compressor supplying air to a plenum below....even in 
>bursts from a storage tank while you do the actual moving.
>Would masonite pegboard do?
>Drilling all those holes with a dremmel will drive you nuts and 
>wear out the dremmel.
>On the other hand, a swinging overhead trolley and rail, set up 
>like a jib crane, with your lift and magnet dangling below, would 
>not cost all that much more to make and be much more versatile.
>
>terry l. ridder wrote:
>> hello;
>> 
>> i have been brainstorming about how to move sheets
>> of sheet metal around easily since i do not have the
>> ability to either brute force them around or leverage
>> them around. the idea of using an air table came to
>> me while in farm and fleet looking for pop rivets when
>> i saw an air hockey game for sale. i have looked around
>> and do not find any viable canidates for an air table.
>> 
>> a friend suggested getting some countertop 2nds from
>> lowes and/or menards and using the dremel tool drill
>> the air holes then just make a sheetmetal plenum. attach
>> a blower to the plenum.
>> 
>> i was thinking of using a sheet of rigid nylon and
>> perforating it with holes.
>> 
>> would anyone have hints, suggestions, comments concerning
>> air tables?
>> 
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