Blowing Air

Interesting idea. Pneumatic (silent “p”, as in “swimming”) tools are cheap because there are no CSA/UL/CE rules for them the way there are for electrical tools & appliances. In a dirty shop environment (think auto body for example) they work well because they are immune to the dirt. In the kitchen this may be a problem because the oily air blast from the exhaust would blow the flour all over the place when making a cake in your pnmix-pnmaster. Because of the exhaust blast, safety glasses should be worn with all air tools – not because there is anything in the exhaust (except perhaps a bit of oil) but because it stirs up everything around it. Other factors are the low overall mechanical efficiency (in the range 10-35%) and the inability to make toast (except perhaps on the compressor’s cylinder head).

Interesting piece of trivia – large scale compressed air was one of the considerations for harnessing the power of Niagara Falls (See Niagara by Pierre Berton, also http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_niagara.html). I can’t imagine the plumbing that would require.

Like your site - found it when looking for the Palm Modbus stuff =8-)

Later

LM