How It Works.

There are two parts to Airtact: the CONTROL SYSTEM and the TOUCH ELEMENT.

Inside the Control System is a pneumatic servo that varies the airflow to/from your handpiece to regulate power from fine to full. The Touch Element tells the Control System how much handpiece power you want just by how you touch it.

The Touch Element is connected to the Control System with a flexible tube slightly larger than a strand of spaghetti. This tube has a small wisp of low pressure air traveling through it. As you vary the airflow coming out of this tube, the Control System increases or decreases the power to the handpiece.

It’s amazing how smooth and effortless it feels. The Touch Element can be mounted anywhere on the handpiece, the floor, your bench, your hand, your mouth … practically anywhere. It’s incredibly natural and comfortable.

The unique magic of Airtact is this special “partnership” between the Control System and the Touch Element. The Control System is the real “brains” while the Touch Element is simple, compact, rugged, and inexpensive. You’ll love the flexibility and precision of this new control.

Adaptable to all hand styles.

The Airtact design team observed at least three different ways engravers, jewelers, and artists hold their pneumatic handpieces. Some hold them like a hand graver with the knob seated in their palm; others like a table knife with their finger pointed forward. Still others hold their handpiece like a pencil for stippling, texturing, hammering, etc. Airtact was designed to adapt to all these preferences and more. It allows hand control using the palm, finger, and thumb . . . whatever the user prefers.

Versatile.

Airtact not only allows hand control, it allows foot control, mouth control, and other creative ways to work. No matter how you like or need to work, it will work for you.

Affordable.

You can get a nice system for under $500.

Retrofits to existing tools.

Can be used with any GraverMach, GraverMax, or GraverMate . . . no matter when it was made.

Rugged.

The Touch Element has no delicate parts to damage. In fact, many Airtact Touch Elements add no moving parts to the handpiece. The Control System is purposely designed for high reliability.

Multitasking.

Airtact hand control provides full operational capability. When engraving lettering, English Scroll or Western Bright Cut, you can power engrave with Airtact and still manually break off chips, as needed, at the end of your cut. You can also texture and hammer with convenient Airtact hand control.