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Old 07-01-2010, 01:00 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Air tool vanes are a plastic composite. They are cooled by the expansion of the compressed air and you have to add lubricating oil periodically or they will seize up. The tools also run at very high rpms, so some sort of gearbox would probably be needed.
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