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drmike:
A local garage used to have a sort of calor gas bottle charged with air that you could use to pump up your tyres. Anyone know what I need to do to make that happen to a bottle I have handy.

To date I've used a diver's bottle but it's gone out of date (they have to be tested every X years) and I suspect it would fail the test and without the stamp no-one should/would refill it. However, I could refill a calor gas bottle at the village garage who have a powerful compressor.

Any advice chaps?

Mike

Range Rover Blues:
I wouldn't want to do it.

Firstly any gas in there would rot your tyres, secondly filling a pressure vessel is a job for 'proffesionals'

When they are refilled they have to be pressure tested too, it's why it costs so much.

And I don't think it would hold that much air either.

Better spending the money on a compressor, Golynn had a T-Max with him the other weekend, only about £50 notes.  I'm a bit jealous :oops:

greasemonkey:
HI
you could try pub gas
co2 is a cool gas so you tyres would run colder
and i am sure i have seen a post on another forum
about this
and if you can speak to your local land lord
they can be refilled very easily
in fact they'll swop it so you will always
have an in date cylinder
regards
Steve
visit me @
www.fronteratech.com
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Range Rover Blues:
I've heard of using Nitrogen before too, not a bad idea that :)

drmike:
Hmm, I know getting real pressure is risky which is why the diver's bottle has to be tested but all I want is just enough to reinflate the tyres to 25 psi from 15. My crappy little battery compressor can sort of do it but it huffs and puffs and my air tool compressor doesn't seem to have a big enough reservoir for all 4 tyres which is a bummer.

There are some good battery compressors out there but they do cost and even those aren't very fast. the diver's bottle is excellent although it was 3 quid each refill which did maybe 4 sets of tyres.

Oh well I suppose I can always drive to the event on road tyres and change the wheels when I get there etc.

Mike

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