Re: PUMP Reply #25 – November 28, 2013, 05:48:51 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143852I vote with Marie on the Viair.Here is the one I own:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X9EGFS/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Compressor, extension hose and inflation gun with gauge all store in convenient bag. The hose is fitted with a quick connect. Easily stored in any outside compartment on any LD. I keep mine in the rear cross-through bay on my IB30. This one is tire inflation made easy.Dan As an Amazon Associate Lazy Daze Owners' Group earns from qualifying purchases.
Re: PUMP Reply #26 – November 29, 2013, 10:01:14 am Yahoo Message Number: 143856Dale asked, "What floor plan do you have? Where are you able to store this pump?" We have a MidBath. I store it under the forward bench seat in the kitchen. I need to access the pump from inside the RV. Not the best solution but not that bad either because I do not need it often. The pump and bag for the associated tools sit inboard that compartment while stuff used more often is near the outside hatch. Sorry it took so long to get back. As I said there are better solutions but I was going on a long trip and having got stuck with a slow leak in a tire once I wanted a pump in the RV before I started out. The trip was last winter and I knew I would have to winterize the RV again. This pump was the one I could find that would fit in the RV and also would allow me to winterize. Larry's CO2 tank might be a better idea.
Re: PUMP Reply #27 – November 29, 2013, 11:37:29 am Yahoo Message Number: 143857I have a CH much like Joan's and have used it often. Usually do it along the road (rest stops, etc.) as it is a little noisy. However, last week I used it in an RV campground. On this occasion there were few people in the CG and I asked the manager's permission before I did it. It is a great thing to have if you "boondock" a lot as that is always when you discover a "low tire." As Joan says: "It isn't fast." When the pressure drops you have to wait for it to build up pressure again. To inflate an LT 225-75R16 tire from 60 psi to 80 psi takes about 6 or 7 "waits" and my take 10 or 15 minutes Even "topping off" with just a few pounds will take at least one "wait." There isn't a lot of air volume in the tank. I have found that many "gas stations" only have about 65psi air available which doesn't work with 80psi tires. Most truck stops have higher pressure air available near their "truck islands." Getting into the truck island area is often a problem, particularly when trucks are lined up to get into the pumps. Once you are in the truck island area it is often a challenge to get back to the "car islands" area to buy gas as most truck stops (Pilot, FJ, TA, Petro, Love's, etc.) do not have gas on the truck islands. After you watch your tire pressures for a while, you will learn about how much the pressures increase with temperature and driving and you can "top them off" while hot. (It helps to have a "digital IR" thermometer to measure the tire tread temperature.) I have done this a number of times but always recheck the pressures the next morning when the tires are cold. I have found the pressure increase typically to be in the 6psi to 9psi range.Doug Baker
Re: PUMP Reply #28 – November 29, 2013, 11:37:29 am Yahoo Message Number: 143858Yes, this one has a slide and it weighs more than 4 LD's and the cost is probably more than the cost of 4 LD's. I saw one last summer in a KOA. A German couple were touring the US and had shipped their rig here to do it. It isn't exactly meant for travel on Interstate highways and it burns more fuel than 4 LD's. The "cost per mile" is significant and is increased even more because it is diesel. I guess that if you can afford to ship a rig like this from Germany to the US, you don't worry about fuel costs.Doug Baker
Re: PUMP Reply #29 – November 29, 2013, 03:17:43 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143860I carry an electric pump I selected for the smallest size in the store that day. I don't like it much, but I'll cope.Maybe give a thought to putting nitrogen into the tires - here's my reasoningI just bought new tires for our (non-tow) passenger car. Big-O offered to fill with nitrogen. While I was saying "no thanks," the other customer piped up to say he did his car tires with N2 and hasn't added air in a couple years. My friend Eddie the Big-O guy offered to N2 fill mine for free, so the experiment is underway. Air is 20% oxygen, 78% nitrogen. The theory is that the oxygen in the air reacts in the tire. The rubber would be better off without that and the gauge pressure might drop by as much as 20% as the oxygen partial pressure drops. Is it worth spending $10 or so per tire? Mmmmm maybe not. But maybe you can get a deal - there might be black-friday nitrogen ;-)John
Re: PUMP Reply #30 – November 29, 2013, 04:56:08 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143861It's amazing what 3 million green ones will buy.http://www.coolthings.com/mxxl-24-ah-why-get-an-rv-when-you-can-have-a-mobile-fortress/Chris
Re: PUMP Reply #31 – November 29, 2013, 06:21:44 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143862I don't know if this has been covered but I have used a Q Industries MV50 for over 5 years with excellent results. Fills fast, handles more than E rated tires and has been reliable. I am really ready to drop yahoo groups altogether with their ads that cover half the screen including the typing area and their ridiculous threading..But I thought someone might find this model useful to check out.
Re: PUMP Reply #32 – November 29, 2013, 06:50:49 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143863"I am really ready to drop yahoo groups altogether with their ads that cover half the screen including the typing area"Matt, I'm curious--what browser are you using to access the group, and what device (screen size, etc.) are you running it on? What I see on my iPad and iMac doesn't look like what you describe. I'm not saying I love it, but I don't see ads taking over half the screen or encroaching on the typing area.Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels
Re: PUMP Reply #33 – November 29, 2013, 08:46:05 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143864Andy I use Firefox but to be fair I also use Yahoo Mail primarily for the group feeds.
Re: PUMP Reply #34 – November 29, 2013, 09:58:45 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143865"I use Firefox"Hmmm. I'm looking at the group's website in Firefox now on my iMac, and I don't see the ad problems you mentioned. Are you on a Mac, PC, iPad, Android tablet...?"to be fair I also use Yahoo Mail primarily for the group feeds."There you've got me, because I've never used Yahoo Mail for anything. Is it possible that Yahoo's web-based email client is... uh... less than clueful? ;-)Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels
Re: PUMP Reply #35 – November 29, 2013, 11:14:18 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143866I have never understood why folks have so much trouble with e-mails. Not just on these forums, but with friends and family as well. It's all a matter of organization. I get individual e-mails from all the Yahoo groups I belong to, and I receive 100 to 200 e-mails each day, so the few that come in from the LD group are just a blimp on the radar. But at the same time I have never seen a Yahoo advertisement. Let me tell you how I do it, and maybe some of you will get some ideas from that. I use Microsoft Outlook for my e-mail program. It's a very powerful program, and fairly expensive. However, if you just want to control e-mails, the free, Microsoft Windows Live Mail will do the job. You just won't have all the bells and whistles of Outlook which is really meant for an office environment. I also use Norton 360 to monitor Outlook so I don't get any bad e-mails. But, before e-mail even arrives at my computer, I use a program called MailWasher Pro that allows me to see every e-mail sitting on the server without downloading it. I think this is important. MailWasher is also a very powerful program that screens out spam and other harmful e-mails. You can also blacklist any address. Once I scan through MailWasher to see what is about to come in, I tell it to process the mail and open Outlook. I then do a send/receive in Outlook to bring in the processed e-mail. Outlook has its own junk mail filters so some things may end up in the Junk E-Mail folder even after MailWasher has done its thing. When the mail arrives in Outlook, I have about 40 folders set up for different things like the LD forum. The mail just flows into these folders. This makes it very easy to see where everything came from, and lets me prioritize what I want to look at and what I will leave until later. I NEVER leave e-mail on the server unless I am travelling, and want to be able to re-visit the e-mail when I get home. I cringe when I talk to people who have thousands of e-mails sitting on their mail server. One person had 60,000. That's insane. This may sound like a complicated procedure, but it is very quick and I have no problem in processing a couple of hundred e-mails every day. Of course a lot of them don't get read if I don't think the subject is interesting. I started using the Internet in 1995, so what I do now is the culmination of everything I have learned in the past 18 years. (I bought my first computer in 1978, an Apple II+) I hope this helps some of you take charge of your incoming e-mails. Dick From: lifewithalazydazerv@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lifewithalazydazerv@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of andybaird@...Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 5:51 PMTo: lifewithalazydazerv@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: Re: [LD] Re: PUMP"I am really ready to drop yahoo groups altogether with their ads that cover half the screen including the typing area"Matt, I'm curious--what browser are you using to access the group, and what device (screen size, etc.) are you running it on? What I see on my iPad and iMac doesn't look like what you describe. I'm not saying I love it, but I don't see ads taking over half the screen or encroaching on the typing areaAndy Baird
Re: PUMP Reply #36 – November 30, 2013, 05:43:13 am Yahoo Message Number: 143868"I am really ready to drop yahoo groups altogether with their ads" If you want fewer ads and use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, or Android, you could try Adblock Plus.https://adblockplus.org/ I've been using it for about 2 years with Firefox, with almost no problems.Howard
Re: PUMP Reply #37 – December 01, 2013, 01:49:48 am Yahoo Message Number: 143875Matt, it sounds like you picked up some bloatware in your travels. Check to see if you have popups blocked in Firefox. Check to see if you have had additional search engines installed as part of 'assistance' provided by your friendly Internet vendors. I recently got snagged with one that was eating 25% of the CPU. I'm usually careful, but that one got by Norton & my usual paranoia. It may have been when I hit a site that loads it's own downloader.
Re: PUMP Reply #38 – December 02, 2013, 07:50:21 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143893Missed out of this last week when we were gone. Quality tires, in good shape, should not lose very much air. I run the pressure 5-6 psi over the amount proper for the weight. Most lost air comes from checking the pressure and it takes 5-6 months before they need air again. I'm now using a TPMS and do not know how long it will be before they need it again since checking is a matter of pushing a few buttons. Even with a TPMS, the pressure should be verified periodically.I want a compressor that will do the job and nothing more. Our 23.5' FL does not have much exterior storage space so I carry a small 12-volt compressor, that will go to 80 psi, ...and have never used it, other than testing it at home. Air gets added at home or a station. The only exception would be when a leak is found. If we had the room, I would find the smallest 120-VAC compressor available, why? Because 120-VAC compressors are less trouble prone, are much more powerful and much cheaper, when performance is compared. Most of us have generators and this a good use for them. When we head out to the backcountry, we always tow the Jeep, in which is carried a bigger MV-50 12-volt compressor, modified to accept a standard quick-release air chuck and tire filler. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200442866_200442866?cm_mmc=Google-pla-_-Air%20Compressors-_-Single%20Stage%20Electric%20Air%20Compressors-_-305400&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=305400&gclid=CNv9lLXykrsCFQZffgodfDYAKQ In addition, a 10-lb tank of CO2 inflator is carried, allowing the Jeep's (or LD) tires to be quickly refilled after off-roading . Beside having a very large volume capacity, CO2 allows using air tools and is set up to use the same hose and attachments as the MV-50. It's 100-psi regulator allows the tank to be used for the LD's tires.http://www.polyperformance.com/shop/Poly-Performance-CO2-Kit-p-57.html A tire repair kit is also carried, many times allowing a repair to be completed with the wheel in place.Larry
Re: PUMP Reply #39 – December 02, 2013, 09:53:11 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143898I "verify periodically" by reading (on the PressurePro monitor) the tire pressures at rest and after they've heated up while driving. As long as the pressure in each tire does what it normally does, I assume the sensor is reading the pressure correctly. What method do you use?Eric Greenwell wrote, On 12/2/2013 5:50 PM:
Re: PUMP Reply #40 – December 03, 2013, 03:02:41 am Yahoo Message Number: 143900"As long as the pressure in each tire does what it normally does, I assume the sensor is reading the pressure correctly. What method do you use?"EricAs a relatively new user of a TPMS, I'm interested in seeing in seeing what, if any difference in pressure reporting between the sensor and the tire pressure gauge plus old habits die hard. As is, I have only manually checked the pressure four times, in eight months. You can't beat the convenience of being able to check all ten tires, in 30 seconds, the comfort of the driver's seat. It get even better in bad weather. If you tow, a TPMS increases the safety margin a little, as flats do happen. Even with a video monitor, it's hard to know if a tire has gone flat. The over-pressure alarm hopefully will alert you to a stuck brake before the toad catches fire. One of last year's Yahoo West GTG attendees, on his way to the GTG, had his.toad's front brake stick, overheat, catch fire and then burn his beloved Saturn to the ground. It was what finally motivated me to get one.Larry
Re: PUMP Reply #41 – December 03, 2013, 12:37:32 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143908I agree with your remarks completely. Concern about my trailer tires, and the realization I could not detect a completely flat rear tire while driving, is what first prompted me to get a TPMS. Now that I have experienced the convenience of using a TPMS, I think that alone is sufficient to justify the cost; of course, the safety improvement is the best reason.Eric wrote, On 12/3/2013 1:02 AM:
Re: PUMP Reply #42 – December 04, 2013, 12:47:45 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143917Quote QuoteAir is 20% oxygen, 78% nitrogen. The theory is that the oxygen in the air reacts in the tire. The rubber would be better off without that and the gauge pressure might drop by as much as 20% as the oxygen partial pressure drops. Hmmm as I understand it it's the uv its the sunlight that 'attracts' the tires.Beside the molecular weight of nitrogen is less then oxygen. What the would lead me to believe is nitrogen would leak faster then oxygen is there were a hole someplace.And frankly there is still the outside of the tires still not coved in pure nitrogen.Me I'm thinking this is just a urban legend. I could be wrong.Glen
Re: PUMP Reply #43 – December 04, 2013, 02:20:32 pm Yahoo Message Number: 143919"Me I'm thinking this is just a urban legend. I could be wrong.Glen Nitrogen molecules are much larger than oxygen and do not pass through the sides of the tires as quickly. Nitrogen is also dry, eliminating tire pressure changes due to the vaporization of moisture, when heated, a big reason why nitrogen is used in race car tires. The lack of oxygen and moisture helps prevent corrosion of the wheels and Schrader valves.. Nitrogen is used extensively in the aircraft industry and is Federally mandated by the FAA for use in commercial aircraft tires to eliminate any possibility of water freezing inside the wheels, while at high altitudes. Many aircraft use nitrogen to fill the empty spaces in fuel tanks, as another way to prevent explosions.Larry
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