place to buy, price, etc.

Thanks

Jim,

You can get them anywhere, Target, Sears, AutoZone ETC. They do not last long and the brand does not seem to matter. They are slow and very noisy, use your own pressure guage, not the guage on the pump. They are all made in China and are for very occasional use only. A plus is one that can be clipped to the battery, that way you won't need the ignition on to use it. I buy mine at a job lot type clearance place or Harbor Freight Tools.

$9 to $19, get the $9

I have one that came free with a 2 1/4 ton jack I purchased. I don't remember the brand though. It is noisy and takes a long time to pump up a tire but I've probably had mine for 6 years now and it still works fine. I hardly use it but it has come in handy on numerous occasions. The thing you have to be really careful about is notn to let them overheat. I only run mine about 30 seconds at a time and then stop for a minute or so to let it cool down before resuming. Yeah, it slows down the job but it really prolongs the life of those things.

Scott

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Scott
1982 Mercedes 240D, 4 speed, 275,000
1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (70,000)
1987 Porsche 911 Coupe 109,000 (sold)
1998 Mercedes E300 TurboDiesel 147,000 (sold)
1985 Mercedes 300D 227,000 (totaled by inattentive driver with no insurance!)
1997 Mercedes E300 Diesel 236,000 (sold)
1995 Ducati 900SS (sold)
1987 VW Jetta GLI 157,000 (sold)
1986 Camaro 125,000 (sold - P.O.S.)
1977 Corvette L82 125,000 (sold)
1965 Pontiac GTO 15,000 restored (sold)

It's too bad no one makes a tire inflator in a can without that sealant crap in it. As for the pump, I have not been able to find one that lasted more than a couple of uses. If your looking for home use, a refillable tank is better. The last time I checked, Harbor Freight had one for about $11.

I bought a mercedes tire pump that I'm happy with.It's a small blue box and I doubt it's made in china.

Jim B+,

Interdynamics makes pretty good ones that usually last for years. I think they are made in USA.

I had one that failed in the warranty period though, but they replaced it with the deluxe model (original was plain model).

I had a foreign one and when a small part in the compressor broke, I couldn't get the part to repair it.

As far as overheating, I've pumped up tires from flat to fat and it didn't seem to bother the compressor.

P E H

Mine's been going for 20yrs. Has the light on one end, which is great in the winter when flashlite batteries last a day or so. Too lazy to go out and find the brand, but it's a cheapy purchased at Target. Sure beats the hand or foot pump.

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I bought a couple of "Safari" Compressors a while back. Best price I could find then was from Autobarn. I think those are made by Interdynamics, and yes, I think they're marked as "made in U. S. A.".

I've only used them once or twice so far. They seemed to be decently made, and the package is convenient with respect to stowing in the trunk. My one gripe is that the built-in gauge on mine is next to useless with respect to accurately reading pressures in the range I'd typically use for tires. Whether that's the norm, or whether I just got a clunker gauge, I don't know, and I haven't bothered to pursue it. I just take care not to inflate the tire to oblivion, and then dial in the pressure with my "real" gauge.


-- eskimo

I used to drive my '68 Ford Bronco on the beach often and used a hand pump - 400 strokes per tire- I had 6.50/16 tires. I made sure I could remove, repair, and replace tubes before I went to Baja California in 1969. Sometimes I drove slowly a couple of miles on 10 psi tires to a gas station; never had a sidewall fail. Once somebody gave me an inflator that you screw in in place of a spark plug. It was slow; I felt pretty stupid sitting there burning up gas for several minutes. Used it on one tire...

I have an electric tire compressor that I bought at Price Club (now called Costco) 16 years ago for about $20 and I have used it a lot all these years and it still works good. It was made in Taiwan and I bought it a time when I didn't really pay attention to where things were made. I let it run as long as it takes to inflate at tire. Every now and then it bogs down a little and to help it I spray WD-40 into the compressor. The pressure guage though never worked right. The interesting thing about it is the part that attaches to the tire has a second valve on the head so I attach a regular tire pressure gauge to it.

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