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PICS ghetto compressor !!
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Hey guys if anyone interested here's my pics of my successful ghetto compressor for troublesome tyres on non tubeless specific rims works a treat and costs under the price of a beer at my local !!!!
So with 2 old presta tubes , 5mm tubing from bunnings , 2litre soft drink bottle and floor pump had to pump the bottle up to 50 psi to work best for me
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Will save lugging the compressor around to race weekends
Is that a registered pressure vessel?
Jokes aside, make sure you reinforce the bottle and use it in such a way that if any part of it does rupture, it doesn't turn into a projectile and take out an eye.
I reckon an even easier one for raceday ghetto, would be a length of hose ( brake bleeding hose would be the right ID), remove valve core of a working tyre, stick a tubeless valve in the other end, pump the tyre up to 40psi, fold over the tube, remove pump, connect tube to wheel you want to inflate, and let go of te fold on the tube .
Pretty much all you need is what's in your toolbox . I'm sure you could get much cleverer with some old floor pump parts.