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Old 01-04-2015, 02:52 AM
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Maybe. I know very little about this but seems I've caught wind of limits, so far, on how fast and often these things can cycle. At 3000 rpm, each set of valves opens 25 times a second. At a common F1 speed, 18,000 rpm, it is 150 times a second. It's bit mind boggling, I gather that the pneumatic springs are more certain than steel springs. I know that the air spring pellet guns have advantage over similar guns with a steel spring. Air molecules don't fatigue.
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