Fun with high pressure gasses

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  • trains are bad
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    • Oct 2003
    • 1751

    #1

    Fun with high pressure gasses

    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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  • lord1234
    College Boy Spydarm
    • Apr 2003
    • 1558

    #2
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    • personman

      #3
      Well you arent the only one who has thought of this. Palmer sells a stabilizer with the hook ups for a car tire I'm sure it could come in quite handy..

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      • RogueFactoryKid
        What wouldnt Jesus Do?
        • Jul 2003
        • 1283

        #4
        Then you had an Apostrophe? that would be this kind of mark ', now you can take chem but dont know that its an Ephiney SP (EppiffEnEy)
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        • Brak
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          • Sep 2002
          • 1996

          #5
          Originally posted by RogueFactoryKid
          Then you had an Apostrophe? that would be this kind of mark ', now you can take chem but dont know that its an Ephiney SP (EppiffEnEy)
          its 'Epiphany'
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          • Mikey B
            Rock Licker
            • Jun 2003
            • 656

            #6
            I would never think to do that. but then again i have not rode my bike in a few years
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            • imstoiched!
              STIFF MEMBER
              • Aug 2003
              • 328

              #7
              Not to bust your bubble (air pun there) but they already sell something like this for MB racing maybe 2-3 years ago when I was heavily into that. IIRC, the product used the 12 gram disposables.
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              • Caffiend
                Caffinated Member
                • Jul 2003
                • 672

                #8
                only danger with using CO2 (that I can think of) is if it heats up too much it could over pressurize your tire. bike tire i wouln't be too worried (pedal bike, right?)
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                • PyRo
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                  • Dec 2000
                  • 10186

                  #9
                  I just repair tubes with electric tape and rubber cement

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                  • bertmcmahan
                    Not pop, it's all Coke
                    • Jan 2002
                    • 1960

                    #10
                    LOL apostrophy...
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                    • Ironmag
                      Support the troops
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 411

                      #11
                      Kinda reminds me of the time when I thought of using my flatline tank to fill up the kiddie pool if my nephew ever wanted to go swimming at the house. Because I was too lazy to get an electric pump or just didn't want to do it all with a manual pump. Too bad I never got around to doing that. Talk about instant pool.

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                      • -=Squid=-

                        #12
                        Originally posted by bertmcmahan
                        LOL apostrophe...
                        Anyways... In this case, wouldnt CO2 be a low pressure gas?

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                        • bertmcmahan
                          Not pop, it's all Coke
                          • Jan 2002
                          • 1960

                          #13
                          LOL oops...
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                          • bertmcmahan
                            Not pop, it's all Coke
                            • Jan 2002
                            • 1960

                            #14
                            LOL oops...
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