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Does anyone know how pneumatic jackhammers work? I've tried looking it up, but I always get the missile. I'm thinking a jackhammer's design could be used for full auto.

I have the same desire...

But, I dont fully understand how the palm nailer works. This would help to understand a possilbe auto-pneumatic design as you pointed out. With the palm nailer when pressure is applied inside the housing for the nail it produces a reporcating motion which we are longing for. Just telling you this so that you can do more research with the subject of reprocating motion produced from a constant air source. I actually have one and took it apart, and still I dont understand how it works. This is a rather compact design also. Good luck finding out how these work, and if you do, please tell me.

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What happends is there is a piston, like in a engine, the air comes in presses the "hammer" in to the ground and when the air accepcts, the air pushes it back up, over and over. That is a good idea. Ill look in to it and get back to you. Tennis ball cannon 3 balls a second

This is how a nailgun works...
http://home.howstuffworks.com/nail-gun4.htm
The wiki didn't really help.

WOW!! wrote:What happends is there is a piston, like in a engine, the air comes in presses the "hammer" in to the ground and when the air accepcts, the air pushes it back up, over and over. That is a good idea. Ill look in to it and get back to you. Tennis ball cannon 3 balls a second

wow that would require some powerfull compressor

thats why theey have huge ones on large trailers pulled behing trucks

Holy S*^# Its Still Going wrote:thats why theey have huge ones on large trailers pulled behing trucks

they are so sweet. arnt they.

I can get 1, They come in all sizes and CFM. Meabey rent one or something like that. My dad might have one at his work. The hardest thing is to get the jackhammer and take it apart lol

Josh