Recommend me a tyre inflator

[Turnip Farmer]

Bought a Ring RAC635 inflator from Amazon back in May and just returned it, pretty useless. Does'nt pump up to the correct pressure and then when unscrewing the nozzle it lets tons of air out which defeats the whole object.

Basically is there any tried and tested ones that fellow PH'ers use?

[r11co]

Turnip Farmer said:

Bought a Ring RAC635 inflator from Amazon back in May and just returned it, pretty useless. Does'nt pump up to the correct pressure...

What are you calibrating it against?

Turnip Farmer said:

and then when unscrewing the nozzle it lets tons of air out which defeats the whole object.

Mine over-inflates very slightly to compensate for this. I think we have established that the problem is not the inflator!

[Chunkymonkey_71]

Recommend you a tyre inflator?

Ok.

I recommend you get a tyre inflator.

[fido]

Ryobi ONE+ Inflator - cheap if you already have the battery/charger. It does slightly over-inflate but I just use my Halfords digital gauge to de-inflate it to the exact PSI.

[anonymous-user]

I have this one from Costco (cheaper in store IIRC)

http://www.costco.co.uk/view/p/goodyear-12v-air-in...

It works

[Turnip Farmer]

r11co said:

Turnip Farmer said:

Bought a Ring RAC635 inflator from Amazon back in May and just returned it, pretty useless. Does'nt pump up to the correct pressure...

What are you calibrating it against?

Turnip Farmer said:

and then when unscrewing the nozzle it lets tons of air out which defeats the whole object.

Mine over-inflates very slightly to compensate for this. I think we have established that the problem is not the inflator!

I have pumped it up using the pump but then checked with a separate gauge that gauge that I have and they both differ, the problem is that I can't rely on it being accurate, is there any other way to check accuracy?

The RAC635 does'nt appear to overinflate, not that I can see, it seems to under inflate. My Volvo v40 tyres want 38psi so set the dial to 28 and press on, pumps up and then stops around 36-37 mark, try to turn on again and then won't go as it thinks its at correct pressure. Of course then I take the nozzle off and loose some more air so its probably around 35-36 mark by that point so bit of a pain really.

Could do with a pump with a snap on clip on the end, the one clip that does'nt loose air when taking off or very very minimal.

[Turnip Farmer]

Chunkymonkey_71 said:

Recommend you a tyre inflator?

Ok.

I recommend you get a tyre inflator.

Fair enough ;-)

[nyt]

Recently bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000UPEHJU/ref=pe_3187...

Seems to do a decent job. Inflates quicker than my old inflator.

[Turnip Farmer]

nyt said:

Recently bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000UPEHJU/ref=pe_3187...

Seems to do a decent job. Inflates quicker than my old inflator.

How do you find the nozzle end on this, does it loose air when unscrewing? Since this is same make as one I had.

[Icehanger]

I gave up with Amazon/Ebays ones and bought a compressor and tyre gun.
Yes it's not portable but perfect for on the drive for the cars and bikes.

[Sheepshanks]

Turnip Farmer said:

Bought a Ring RAC635 inflator from Amazon back in May and just returned it, pretty useless. Does'nt pump up to the correct pressure and then when unscrewing the nozzle it lets tons of air out which defeats the whole object.

I have that exact model and find it fine, to be honest. I went for a screw-on one as the clip-on ones always seemed hit and miss to me. I use it on multiple vehicles.

It lets out a tiny bit of air when unscrewing - as long as you do it pretty quickly. I don't rely on the built-in gauge - I use a decent digital pressure gauge but I generally find if I stop the Ring at 1.5PSI above the desired pressure it'll be right on my hand-held gauge.

[Turnip Farmer]

Icehanger said:

I gave up with Amazon/Ebays ones and bought a compressor and tyre gun.
Yes it's not portable but perfect for on the drive for the cars and bikes.

Could I ask which you got and where from? I thought about going down this route too

[nyt]

Turnip Farmer said:

How do you find the nozzle end on this, does it loose air when unscrewing? Since this is same make as one I had.

It's a screw on fitting. It loses a tiny amount but certainly not enough to worry about.

[Icehanger]

Turnip Farmer said:

Could I ask which you got and where from? I thought about going down this route too

The compressor I bought was a Clarke from machine mart about 10 years ago the link below is about the equivalent, the tanks big enough to do all 4 tyres,

https://www.screwfix.com/p/impax-om227-24-cm2-proe...

Accessories wise, for doing what I wanted the cheap kit from screw fix is fine, the gauge is ok but I use a digital one to get the exact Psi I need.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/air-tool-spray-kit-5-pi...

so for about £100 you have something far superior than an ebay special, and you look super serious when doing the tyres on the drive

[phillpot]

Nice little 12 volt unit, next league up from all the "Halfords" types............... clicky