Occasionally we get asked if liquids can be used in place of air in our dashpots. Let’s talk about some of the issues. Because liquids are essentially incompressible, a liquid-filled dashpot wouldn’t suffer from the “air spring” effect that all air-filled dashpots have. This “air spring” is usually undesirable as it reduces the damping at [...]
We use our graphite pistons and glass cylinders as the core technology to make our air dashpots and low friction air cylinders. Some customers go in a different direction and use the piston-cylinders to make sliding linear bearings. Let’s talk about some of the issues involved with this. A rod in a precision V-block is […]
We at Airpot make three different low friction air cylinder lines under the Airpel name. Many customers have asked us how we measure the friction in these cylinders. Today, we’re going to explain how friction is measured in our Airpel Plus air cylinders. The Airpel (or standard Airpel) is a low friction air cylinder available […]
One of the ways our air cylinders have such low friction is that the Airpot (and Airpel) pistons are fit to the cylinder with clearance and therefore, there are no true seals. However, this means that whenever there is a pressure difference that there will be a non-zero flow of the fluid from the high […]
One issue that comes up when customizing your Airpot or Airpel pneumatic cylinders is how to connect a rod to the piston. The simplest way to connect the piston to the rod in pneumatic cylinders is usually the worst, but is sometimes actually appropriate, so let’s discuss it. The type of connection is a rigid […]
Airpot introduces the first three in a series of online technical product videos which illustrate pneumatic control of unwanted […]
Airpot Corp. announces “Accurate Force Pneumatics” for control of force, motion and displacement with unparalleled[…]
Airpot Corporation announces the addition of a position sensing option to its popular line of Airpel non-stiction air cylinder actuators. […]
High performance CNC micro machining centers used to fabricate small high precision parts from plastics, metals, glass, and ceramics […]
An air cylinder provides smooth operation and controls tension to less than 0.5 gram to produce special fiber sensors […]
