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Old 02-07-12, 09:44 PM   #7
mrd
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Your valves are spring-loaded, so they will stabilize, stretched a distance to match the pressure differential induced by the essentially constant loads imposed on both sides. If you could force the valves closed cyclically, to prevent pressures from stabilizing, it would pump. I'm sure it's possible to devise a passive mechanism to do this, but I'm not sure what the simplest would be.
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