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From: Bill on 29 Jan 2010 16:43
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.


From: Huey on 29 Jan 2010 17:06

"Bill" <hb(a)twilight.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

From: IanT on 29 Jan 2010 17:57

"Bill" <hb(a)twilight.com> wrote in message
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> 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!


From: Chris Whelan on 29 Jan 2010 18:02
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.

Chris

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From: Duncan Wood on 29 Jan 2010 18:32
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!
>
>

Well quite a lot aren't ignition switched but fitting croc clips instead
isn't rocket science.
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