Existential Angst wrote:
Having said that, here's an alternative for you:
Get a 5 or 10 gal air tank from HF, which comes with a gauge, a
short tire filler hose/chuck, and then use your tire inflator to fill
that tank at your leisure, and then use the portable air tank for
your tires -- and it's quick, just like using a real compressor!
I use this myself, to fill a tire I can't get to my shop, or to help
out a friend, etc.

These tanks wouldn't be terribly convenient for fully flat tires, but
for low tires or to top off, etc, they're pretty neat.
And they WILL fill a fully flat tire enough to get it going, mebbe
even up to rated psi, depending on the size and to what pressure you
fill the tank.

OR, you could make your own tank from a discarded propane tank and some
suitable plumbing. (Not to worry, a propane tank will contain pressures far
in excess of what a compressor can deliver, plus, the propane tank has a
built-in pressure relief valve.)

Instead of dragging my compressor into the house to re-nail some baseboards,
my retasked tank is good for 100 or more brads.

It's been a while, but I think my 1974 Dodge Dart, didn't
need to take the radiator out to change the fuel pump. The
slant six were easier than the V-8, 318.

And air tools sure make the job go better.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"notbob" wrote in message
...

How cool are air tools? I change out a water pump,
including removal
of front grill and radiator, and had it all buttoned back up
within 40
mins! Admittedly, a '74 Dodge van is the easiest vehicle on
earth to
work on, but it woulda been a 2-3 hr job without air. A
3/8" drive
butterfly impact wrench is a joy to hold and use!

nb

"83LowRider" wrote in news:j1t52r$uqi$1@dont-
email.me:

Red Green wrote:

Who the **** would pay for air? The OP said he used it to air his
scooter tires. A 10 gal tank at 100psi will hold enough air to
pump his tires for a year.

Nice rant tho.

"Thanks for listening" :-) It was something to do while watching the
market rebound this morning.

Likely temporary.. There will be no stability in any of the markets
until we dump our current prez.

....and his entire 535 member gangsta's. Make it 534...leave Bernie
Sanders. He's cool. I see him at Al's French Frys.


And if the sole use is his scooter tires, how does that apply?
Do you think he intends to strap it to his bike?

OP didnt't say sole use. Just said he had a PITA scooter.

I didn't catch that PITA part, but if it has leaking tires, it's
indeed a PITA scooter.

WTF is a prolly?

WTF is a RedGreen or 'ofeeeeeended'?

WTF is a RedGreen

You don't know cuz you prolly spend too much time in those AOL
"rooms".

Ahhh, so you prolly did know what prolly means.

You're too sharp for me.


or 'ofeeeeeended'?

Whiney ass modern day people who go into crisis mode and need
counseling because someone called them a faggot and said there mother
wears army boots. They're ofeeeeeended at everything.

That would cover most of todays whiney ass youth then.

....and spineless bleeding heart granola-head parents.


Somewhat different in my single digit years.

"Stanley, you are the stupidest asshole pollock I ever met."

"Well Tony, it's better than being a ****ing slime ball guinea
like you."

Tony pops Stanley in the face. Stanley gets Tony down, sits on
his head and farts.

My brother (being ten years older than me) used to win that game
all the time. My only hope was a sneak attack.

Later that day Stanley & Tony are having a ball building a
buggie out of various crap they scrounged up. They both go home
later and each mom ask them what they did today. "Ah, nothin'
really. Me and Stanley/Tony just played."

Oh sure, the fart game is all well and good til someone lets slip
a wet one.

"HeyBub" wrote in
m:

Red Green wrote:

Somewhat different in my single digit years.

"Stanley, you are the stupidest asshole pollock I ever met."

"Well Tony, it's better than being a ****ing slime ball guinea
like you."

Tony pops Stanley in the face. Stanley gets Tony down, sits on
his head and farts.

Later that day Stanley & Tony are having a ball building a
buggie out of various crap they scrounged up. They both go home
later and each mom ask them what they did today. "Ah, nothin'
really. Me and Stanley/Tony just played."

Males insult each other, but they're only joking; females praise each
other, but they're joking, too.




So true!!!!!

"83LowRider" wrote in news:j1s261$fb3$1@dont-
email.me:

Red Green wrote:
Those things are a f'n joke. It can only fill until the pressure in
the tank & tire are equalized. So, you load up the gas station unit
with quarters and see IF it can pump up the tank with 135 PSI. Ooops!
timed out. More quarters. Later you try to inflate any normal size
tire (not bicycle, wheelbarrow, handtruck, 30 series pothole disaster
tires). Transfer tank volume runs out when equalized at maybe 20 PSI.
Good enough, go to gas station, load up machine with quarters, finish
pumping up tire, hurry to fill transfer tank too, ****-timed out and
only at 70 PSI, more quarters. There! Done!! That was easy.

Who the **** would pay for air? The OP said he used it to air his
scooter tires. A 10 gal tank at 100psi will hold enough air to
pump his tires for a year. Nice rant tho.

"... really handy when you want to air up a tire in a place where you
can't easily get electrical power or stretch a hose."

errr...you pump up a compressor, disconnect and take it anywhere
needed. It doesn't need to be plugged in to discharge ya know.

And if the sole use is his scooter tires, how does that apply?
Do you think he intends to strap it to his bike?

The one on my work truck is prolly 8 years old, used regularly,
exposed to the elements (durable), and very cheap. If you buy a
'good' compressor you've paid too much to air up scooter tires. If
you get a cheap one, they usually fail within a year. Fill it at
your local station, it'll hold enough air
for your tires for a year. If not, you need new tubes/tires. If too
heavy, move down to a 5 gal.

WTF is a prolly?

WTF is a RedGreen or 'ofeeeeeended'?




PepBoys and Harbor Freight sell nice little 12V compressors that plug into
your cig lighter or clip onto the battery posts. NOT the yellow plastic
$7 POS,but the metal ones,they go for around $20,PepBoys had their
MasterFlow MF-1040 on sale for $14 after rebate,I have one,and it's
good.150PSI.
It does tires fine.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
localnet
dot com

In ,
notbob typed:
On 2011-08-09, Twayne wrote:

Yes. Check the highest tire pressure you need for the
bikes (often around 60 lbs)

Pshaw! Most road bikes with sew-ups or even good tube
tires need 90-120lbs. Those "inflators" are good for
that, but who carries a 12V car battery on a road bike.

blowing out hoses, pipes, etc..

Sounded good until you got to "pipes". Pipes need volume
+ pressure. No way yer gonna get the former without mucho
storage.

nb

Gee, that's funny, my neighbor does his sprnklers with that very same model
every year. It's slower, takes more patience, and works well. Same for water
pipes & end-season blow-outs. While vol = time, it's the PRESSURE available
that determiines whether it will work or not. Your picky comments are the
reason I mentioned the larger tanks - I suggest you need some help with
reading comprehension.
16 bicycles, 6 of them new in the group, not a single one is rated at
over 90 psi with most beiing 60 and a few larger tires at 45. Cars are
typically in the 30-45 range and 60 for the phoney spares. If I wanted to
write a book to shut up pickies like you I could have, but I stand by the
advice that was gven.

In ,
83LowRider typed:
Red Green wrote:
Those things are a f'n joke. It can only fill until the
pressure in the tank & tire are equalized. So, you load
up the gas station unit with quarters and see IF it can
pump up the tank with 135 PSI. Ooops! timed out. More
quarters. Later you try to inflate any normal size tire
(not bicycle, wheelbarrow, handtruck, 30 series pothole
disaster tires). Transfer tank volume runs out when
equalized at maybe 20 PSI. Good enough, go to gas
station, load up machine with quarters, finish pumping
up tire, hurry to fill transfer tank too, ****-timed out
and only at 70 PSI, more quarters. There! Done!! That
was easy.

Who the **** would pay for air? The OP said he used it to
air his scooter tires. A 10 gal tank at 100psi will hold
enough air to pump his tires for a year. Nice rant tho.

"... really handy when you want to air up a tire in a
place where you can't easily get electrical power or
stretch a hose." errr...you pump up a compressor, disconnect and take it
anywhere needed. It doesn't need to be plugged in to
discharge ya know.

And if the sole use is his scooter tires, how does that
apply? Do you think he intends to strap it to his bike?

The one on my work truck is prolly 8 years old, used
regularly, exposed to the elements (durable), and very
cheap. If you buy a 'good' compressor you've paid too
much to air up scooter tires. If you get a cheap one,
they usually fail within a year. Fill it at your local
station, it'll hold enough air for your tires for a year. If not, you
need new
tubes/tires. If too heavy, move down to a 5 gal.

WTF is a prolly?

WTF is a RedGreen or 'ofeeeeeended'?

Why keep trolling the same boring tripe?

Twayne wrote:

WTF is a prolly?

WTF is a RedGreen or 'ofeeeeeended'?

Why keep trolling the same boring tripe?

Well, let's see... I've lurked around here for a long time.
I made my first post ever here, in this thread telling
the OP he may want to consider a holding tank. Seems
on topic so we'll discount my first ever post.

My second ever post is a reply to RedGreen, when
you throw this turd in the pool. Since we're discounting
my first post (as it was on topic) it seems at the time of
your reply, that your boring tripe reply to me is equal to
my boring tripe reply to RG.

And good luck with your valiant efforts to clean up
USENET... God knows it's long overdue.

Red Green wrote:

Likely temporary.. There will be no stability in any of the markets
until we dump our current prez.

...and his entire 535 member gangsta's. Make it 534...leave Bernie
Sanders. He's cool. I see him at Al's French Frys.

They're 99% crooks indeed! Throw them all out including
that other 1% too, just to be safe and throw Bernie out also.
He's a nutjob... very altruistic and sincere I believe, but
a nutjob.

You don't know cuz you prolly spend too much time in those AOL
"rooms".

Ahhh, so you prolly did know what prolly means.

You're too sharp for me.

A band-aid will fix that up for ya if you're bleeding anywhere.

And as a sidenote, not since my first Commodore 64 have
I ever entered an AOL anything. AOL is to the internet as
what the Edsel was to automobiles, or what Milli Vanilli was
to music.

Whiney ass modern day people who go into crisis mode and need
counseling because someone called them a faggot and said there
mother wears army boots. They're ofeeeeeended at everything.

That would cover most of todays whiney ass youth then.

...and spineless bleeding heart granola-head parents.

I count them as part of 'the youth'. ****ty parenting is almost
the sole reason for our current demise. No work ethic, want
it all but can't pay for it. Kinda like our current gov't. Our
grandfathers are spinnin' in their graves. Well, at least mine
(born late 1800s) are...

Everything you need to know about air fittings is at:
www.miltonindustries.com/

DL their PDF catalog and you will have a good overview of the best air fitting products on the market. The company is pretty much the standard in many repair and industrial fields, and noted for the reliability of their USA made products.

Joe

Wish I had friends like that, back then.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


..

"Stanley, you are the stupidest asshole pollock I ever
met."

"Well Tony, it's better than being a ****ing slime
ball guinea
like you."

Tony pops Stanley in the face. Stanley gets Tony down,
sits on
his head and farts.

Later that day Stanley & Tony are having a ball
building a
buggie out of various crap they scrounged up. They
both go home
later and each mom ask them what they did today. "Ah,
nothin'
really. Me and Stanley/Tony just played."

Males insult each other, but they're only joking;

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:30:34 -0400, "83LowRider"
wrote:


Well, let's see... I've lurked around here for a long time.

If long enough you would've known what a RedGreen is and how it came
about.

Oren wrote:

Well, let's see... I've lurked around here for a long time.

If long enough you would've known what a RedGreen is and how it came
about.

A rhetorical question.. kinda like the meaning of 'prolly' or 'ofeeeeended'.

"83LowRider" wrote in
:

Oren wrote:

Well, let's see... I've lurked around here for a long time.

If long enough you would've known what a RedGreen is and how it came
about.

A rhetorical question.. kinda like the meaning of 'prolly' or
'ofeeeeended'.





A rhetorical question

It has an answer/reason...

The handle was taken because it applies to the group theme - and many of
the characters who post here. We all know a Red Green, we all (OK
virtually) have been a Red Green and some of us have even seen Red Green in
media.

"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...
Existential Angst wrote:
Having said that, here's an alternative for you:
Get a 5 or 10 gal air tank from HF, which comes with a gauge, a
short tire filler hose/chuck, and then use your tire inflator to fill
that tank at your leisure, and then use the portable air tank for
your tires -- and it's quick, just like using a real compressor!
I use this myself, to fill a tire I can't get to my shop, or to help
out a friend, etc.

These tanks wouldn't be terribly convenient for fully flat tires, but
for low tires or to top off, etc, they're pretty neat.
And they WILL fill a fully flat tire enough to get it going, mebbe
even up to rated psi, depending on the size and to what pressure you
fill the tank.

OR, you could make your own tank from a discarded propane tank and some
suitable plumbing. (Not to worry, a propane tank will contain pressures
far in excess of what a compressor can deliver, plus, the propane tank has
a built-in pressure relief valve.)

Instead of dragging my compressor into the house to re-nail some
baseboards, my retasked tank is good for 100 or more brads.

What type adapter do you need?

Proly a li'l tricky for a newbie, no?
You need a plumbing equiv. to a valve stem, hose+tire filler ditty, and
ideally a gauge, + a variety of fittings..
The HF thingy is $25 complete. I'll bet, depending depending, the hardware
for the propane conversion would be a good part of $25, plus the futzing
around. Mebbe even more!

So, not rocket science for a shopster, but mebbe a bit of a project for
others.

Also, the HF ditty holds the air really good. Rock solid for over a month
now.
Plus, it's a nice brite yellow....
--
EA