Ultimate tire inflation

Posted on April 18, 2009 by ragmanx

Some of you may have seen this before.

I had not.

3 thoughts on “Ultimate tire inflation”

Tim G. on May 4, 2009 at 10:14 am said:

http://www.ampoff.com/TEMP/tireInflation.jpg

Nice.

/tg
Tim G. on May 4, 2009 at 10:43 am said:

Here is a link to a working one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fKzL_-1dLk

I don’t think it is inflating the tire. I think the internal “explosion” (I am assuming a can starting fluid), is simply causing the tire to expand and force a seat onto the rim. Sure, some gases may stay in the tire, but drop the hi-jack and I bet it goes flat.

Short; Nice for seating the tire on the trail which can be a PITA, but still needs to be aired up.

/tg
ragmanx on May 16, 2009 at 4:29 pm said:

I think you are right. I’ll have to update the post to get the functioning video in there – it was still working last time I’d checked, but obviously my available time for the site is horridly limited any more.