Pneumatic motor and cylinders

[Liam Callaghan]

Anyone know anything about pneumatics?

I just managed to score a pneumatic switch valve, dual and single cylinder and a motor.

The switch valve and cylinders I got to make a small bottling plant in the brewery before I start making up large batches of saison and other beers that are best bottled.  The motor I intend to use over the boil kettle as an agitator - non electric which should be a lot better than my 220v drill in all that steam :p

http://www.gastmfg.com/product_detail.aspx?ProductID=319&Produc...

That's the motor type I just got and it has two ports in the main housing but they are both closed off with grub nuts, not an exhaust like on the image.  Just wanted to know if that's where the air in and out go?

Also if anyone knows what size compressor I should be looking at for the cylinders?  I don't want to eject the beer through the bottle :)

Nice winter project while I load up on lagers...  

If I get time to brew or have a winter project of course...

[Peter Smith]

i have used festo air rams before but never seen anything like this, is this an air driven motor?

[Scarrfie]

You might just do it on single phase although tops is usually 15 cfm. You might get away with running two smaller compressors on different circuits.