Legal Pneumatics Tubing Discontinued

What are you supposed to do now that the VEX part 275-0447 (Pneumatics Tubing) is discontinued?

I’m pretty sure that the VEX Game Manual, for multiple seasons at this point, has consistently disallowed any other pneumatics tubing other than TUO425B from SMC or 275-0447 from VEX. Any other tubing, albeit hard to distinguish, would be a non-VEX component making the build illegal.

This raises two questions:

  1. Since VEX has discontinued their pneumatics tubing, do we need to purchase a new Pneumatics Kit (276-8750) every time we need more tubing?
  2. Is SMC the only legal provider of the pneumatics tubing now that VEX has discontinued their pneumatics tubing? The previous question sounds quite absurd considering that all we need is more tubing.

Thanks in advance!

276-8083

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I apologize for the seemingly useless question. We are located in the Australia/Asia Pacific region where that listing, for some reason, doesn’t appear. The webpage says, " Oh no! The page you requested was not found, but hopefully we can get you to where you want to go" and the listing 276-8083 is nowhere to be found.

I should have structured the question to make this fact clear, but thank you for your answer! We’ll have to pay a slight extra in terms of shipping I guess.

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No fault of yours. That page should be enabled on the AU site. I’m currently looking into why it wasn’t. (I’m also showing that the AU warehouse has inventory of the new tubing)

Unless this is an urgent need, hold off on ordering from any of the other international stores for now. Should hopefully be able to get this straightened out sometime early next week.

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Update, the page linked above should now be available on the AU site. Let me know if you run into any issues. :+1:

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