Ultrasilent brass fidget piston is built with such precise tolerances that air becomes the spring
News Source : Yanko Design
News Summary
- The MetMo Piston is what happens when you shrink a pneumatic system down to pocket size and machine it from solid brass.
- A precision-machined piston pin slides into an equally precise cylinder block, and the tolerances between the two are so tight that air cannot escape.
- Spin the knurled housing and the piston pin rotates on what MetMo calls an aerodynamic bearing, a thin cushion of air that forms between the pin and the cylinder block.
- The Piston also features a pressure release valve that lets you adjust the drop speed and rebound behavior of the piston.
Pneumatics is an industrial workhorse, a bruteforce technology that uses compressed air to power everything from factory robots to freight train brakes.
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