Everything you stated is correct and that is my problem. The hose is open and we should have lenty of air. There are many other air operated pumps in the plant that are consuming air, but the hose to the problem pump branches off very close to the compressor. According to the pump curves 5CFM...
I hope somebody can help me with this. I have a little 1" Air operated diaphragm pump that only needs about 5CFM @ 50psi to operate. Our main air compressor makes about 540CFM @ 100psi. There is a hard lined 1” pipe off of our 2” header line that originally fed the pump, but that didn’t get...
We use Adams for modeling. I am going to try to build a full model this year even if it only helps the next year’s team. Unfortunately I don’t know a whole lot about Adams because the people that learned it previous years graduate without passing much down.
A rock crawling event was added two...
I am a member of the Purdue Mini-baja team and I recently began working on our suspension setup for the coming year. I was looking through Carroll Smith’s latest book, Racing chassis and suspension design and found a very interesting paper from Erik Zapetal SAE # 2000-01-3572
This design allows...