gas station air pumps
Hi Always seem to be having problems finding gas stations with high volume and pressure air pumps for tires (80 psi). How does everyone else get on?
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DrewE wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
A cheap Walmart inflator is rated for 130 psi.
Just buy one and carry it with you. You'll alway need one. The other, to always check balanced air pressures on all your tires after several hundred miles or in severely fluctuating weather conditions.
They say 130 psi, but if you need to add more than a couple pounds to a large tire you'll be waiting for a very long time (and the cheap inflators are not designed or rated for continuous usage). Even a standard car tire takes a decent length of time to inflate with one of them. The high pressure rating is perhaps useful with things like road bicycles where the volume of air required is pretty minimal.
I carry a small 120V compressor, a Fini AirBoss, which does very nicely at putting air in the tires while not being too large or heavy.
That's funny! As a "just in case" I bought one of those +130 psi 12 V. battery powered portable compressors (with clamps) at WalMart. Well, the need finally did arise and I wanted to top off my one of my 19.5" Goodyear G670's from 80 to 85 psi. After 10 minutes I was up a whopping 2 psi. That's when the brand new "compressor" started to struggle. First came the electrical burning smell, . . . . then the smoke. Then, . . . . it was all over. I returned the compressor the next day. No questions asked.
Chum lee
