trains are bad
09-20-2004, 03:41 PM
I wanted to ride last night (actually this morning). My bike had a flat. So whatever, I have the technology. I whipped out the tools and changed the tube. But I realized I had left my bike pump at home (I just moved).
Now what. I'll go down to the gas station a few blocks away. They
might have air. So I do. They don't. Neither does anywhere else in New concord ohio at 0030 hours.
Damn. So I go back to my room and do physics and calc....actually I got on ao and brooded over how I could get sherman fixed.
Then I had an apostrophe. I was sitting on all the compressed gasses I could want. I had my paintball gear under my bed. All that was left to do was harness it. So I dug out my backup backup marker, a shaved, top cocking low pressure 98 custom and yanked the palmer's stabilizer regulator and line off it. It already had a guage on it, and I attached my tire chuck to the hose. I screwed it onto an air tank and adjusted it to 100 psi. Wait, both my air tanks are empty. Double damn.
I had to use co2. Which worked fine. And has been.
Yep. I filled it right up.
And rode.
And I'm keeping the setup with a 9oz co2 tank on it in my toolbox. Beats a bike pump anyway. It'd probably fill 100 bike tires. And I fill co2 for cheap because I have a 200lb bulk tank of co2 in my apartment (I'm a little too into paintball)
I might calculate how much heavier co2 is but I need to talk to my chem professor. I'm not sure how pressure vs molar quantities of different gasses works exactly.
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Now what. I'll go down to the gas station a few blocks away. They
might have air. So I do. They don't. Neither does anywhere else in New concord ohio at 0030 hours.
Damn. So I go back to my room and do physics and calc....actually I got on ao and brooded over how I could get sherman fixed.
Then I had an apostrophe. I was sitting on all the compressed gasses I could want. I had my paintball gear under my bed. All that was left to do was harness it. So I dug out my backup backup marker, a shaved, top cocking low pressure 98 custom and yanked the palmer's stabilizer regulator and line off it. It already had a guage on it, and I attached my tire chuck to the hose. I screwed it onto an air tank and adjusted it to 100 psi. Wait, both my air tanks are empty. Double damn.
I had to use co2. Which worked fine. And has been.
Yep. I filled it right up.
And rode.
And I'm keeping the setup with a 9oz co2 tank on it in my toolbox. Beats a bike pump anyway. It'd probably fill 100 bike tires. And I fill co2 for cheap because I have a 200lb bulk tank of co2 in my apartment (I'm a little too into paintball)
I might calculate how much heavier co2 is but I need to talk to my chem professor. I'm not sure how pressure vs molar quantities of different gasses works exactly.
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