From: Usenet Nutter on
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:57:53 -0000, "IanT" <noemail(a)email.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>"Bill" <hb(a)twilight.com> wrote in message
>news:j9l6m5l0db8766a6ln9bcp58fj8k9ga4g5(a)4ax.com...
>> Are there any cheapish digital tyre inflators out there (<�40) that
>> come with crocodile clips, internal battery or main adapter instead of
>> the cigarette lighter adapter?
>>
>> I wanted to pick one up to blow my tyres up as a lot of the air pumps
>> at garages near me are not working at the moment. Unfortunately my
>> cars cig lighter don't work even when the car is switched on.
>>
>>
>None of them do, but it's not that difficult to join two wires to the
>cigarette
>lighter plug and attach some crocodile clips on the ends. Make sure the
>wire going to the tip of the plug goes to the positive!
>

Or you can buy a cig lighter to croc clips adaptor from Ebay for not a
lot if you wish .
From: The Revd on
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:02:42 GMT, Chris Whelan
<cawhelan(a)prejudicentlworld.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:06:07 +0000, Huey wrote:
>
>> "Bill" <hb(a)twilight.com> wrote in message
>> news:j9l6m5l0db8766a6ln9bcp58fj8k9ga4g5(a)4ax.com...
>>> Are there any cheapish digital tyre inflators out there (<£40) that
>>> come with crocodile clips, internal battery or main adapter instead of
>>> the cigarette lighter adapter?
>>>
>>> I wanted to pick one up to blow my tyres up as a lot of the air pumps
>>> at garages near me are not working at the moment. Unfortunately my cars
>>> cig lighter don't work even when the car is switched on.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Get a decent calibrated tyre guage and a decent manual foot pump. Will
>> last far longer, cheaper and more accurate.
>
>Seconded.
>
>The gauges on the electric inflators are so inaccurate as to be
>worthless, and unless you have some physical shortcomings a foot pump is
>actually faster.

I have an electric one that reads twice what the actual pressure
is...and goes up to a maximum of 210 psi!

From: Dave Plowman (News) on
In article <uZI8n.150784$Jg5.119945(a)newsfe02.ams2>,
Huey <huesnews(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Get a decent calibrated tyre guage and a decent manual foot pump. Will
> last far longer, cheaper and more accurate.

I've got two compressors. One run off the car battery and the other as
part of a jump start pack. Both still work just fine. Despite being
cheaper than a good quality foot pump. Which can be quite hard work. ;-)

--
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Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW
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From: Douglas Payne on
Bill wrote:
> Are there any cheapish digital tyre inflators out there (<�40) that
> come with crocodile clips, internal battery or main adapter instead of
> the cigarette lighter adapter?
>
> I wanted to pick one up to blow my tyres up as a lot of the air pumps
> at garages near me are not working at the moment. Unfortunately my
> cars cig lighter don't work even when the car is switched on.

Buy one with a cigarette lighter plug, chop it off and fit crocodile
clips. You can buy them in Maplin or RS Components or something.

--
Douglas
From: Usenet Nutter on
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:54:18 +0000, Douglas Payne
<douggie(a)cheerful.com> wrote:

>Bill wrote:
>> Are there any cheapish digital tyre inflators out there (<�40) that
>> come with crocodile clips, internal battery or main adapter instead of
>> the cigarette lighter adapter?
>>
>> I wanted to pick one up to blow my tyres up as a lot of the air pumps
>> at garages near me are not working at the moment. Unfortunately my
>> cars cig lighter don't work even when the car is switched on.
>
>Buy one with a cigarette lighter plug, chop it off and fit crocodile
>clips. You can buy them in Maplin or RS Components or something.

Or ,as I said ,buy an adaptor ( female cig lighter connection to croc
clips) on Ebay and you have both as you need them.