From: Usenet Nutter on 29 Jan 2010 18:35 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 30 Jan 2010 04:29 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 30 Jan 2010 06:27 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. ;-) -- *I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Douglas Payne on 31 Jan 2010 02:54 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 31 Jan 2010 06:28 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.
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