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Subject:Re: AC Compressor to inflate tires, etc?
From:Dale Ward
Date:Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:39:42 EST

In a message dated 1/8/2007 5:02:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
VW4X4@VERIZON.NET writes:

What's  the likely hood,  of hot flaming  gasses  (your combustion  chamber)
coming thru the hose and causing a fire else where, or more so,  an
explosion?

JOE

Jeffrey Schwaia wrote:

>Way back when I was just a lad,  my father used to carry one of those tire
>inflaters that screwed into  the a spark plug hole.  Very simple device:
>long hose (~20'),  fitting on one end where it screwed into the plug hole, a
>fitting on  the other end for the tire valve, heck, it even had  pressure
>gauge.
>
>Cheers,
>

My father still has one of those spark plug hole tire inflators. It doesn't
use the gasses from the combustion chamber to inflate the tire. It just uses
the  pumping action of the cylinder to move a diaphragm up and down, which in
turn  pumps fresh air.

Dale  Ward
LiMBO Club House Keeper

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