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 Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: Tire inflation tool for those with pants |
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FWIW. Here is something that might come in handy. Posted by a fellow pilot of 182 and 206 models.
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Hi:
Inflating tires encased in wheel pants is unpleasant, dirty and so unattractive that we often fly around with underinflated tires. (Do I hear any argument? So far, no.) So what can we do about it?
The problem is that that little valve is buried in behind that hole that is too small for your fingers or the pump clamp. Wouldn't it be lovely if you could temporarily bring the valve out to where you were? Well, now you can.
I remembered a gadget that is sold in automotive parts houses that was advertised as a "valve extender." The expected market is owners of Winnabago like vehicles and similar wheeled vehicles with double tires. The inner valve is very hard to reach. At inside end is a cap that screws over the valve and depresses the valve stem to provide access to the air in the tire; at the outside end is a conventional tire valve. They are intended for permanent installation. In many cases, the extender is a rigid structure, but I remembered sometime seeing a flexible hose variety. Searching on the internet, I found such a model and ordered two.[img]cid:p06240804c2d132b11a1b(at)[192.168.1.3].1.0[/img]
As manufactured, it comes with a C-clamp at the outside end to allow you to clamp it to the outer wheel. It also has a cap free to rotate on the inside. I removed the clamp and epoxied the free cap to the adjacent swaged fitting on the hose. Thus, you can twist the hose outside the wheel pant hole and the cap will screw on or off the valve inside the wheel pant. Easy on and easy off. You still have to stick your fingers in the hole to get the regular valve cap off and on, but apart from that, it is strictly an outside job.
I tried it on my car tire. The loss of air on insertion and removal is negligible. I will put one extender in each hangar, held on the tire pump hose with a rubber band. The extenders are $10 apiece so please do not lose them.
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