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"offensive"?

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take the tour, it's really offensive.

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take the tour, it's really offensive.

He must be referring to the price of the titanium pump: $300­not
including the pump head!!!

Talk about inflation; or, considering the absence of a pump head, the
lack thereof.

luke

Luke said:

In article <[email hidden]>, g.daniels

Quoted message said:

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take the tour, it's really offensive.

He must be referring to the price of the titanium pump: $300­not
including the pump head!!!

Talk about inflation; or, considering the absence of a pump head, the
lack thereof.

I thought that a little weird. To the extent I can understand a 3C air pump, I
cannot see an INCOMPLETE pump at that price.

Gee, complete one for $325 make WAY more sense. Sort of.

Ron

yup! 300 bills buys a lotta bean cans!

g.daniels said:

yup! 300 bills buys a lotta bean cans!

Can you make a pump outta bean cans?

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Mark Janeba said:

g.daniels said:

yup! 300 bills buys a lotta bean cans!

Can you make a pump outta bean cans?

Certainly. There are a few details, however. The internal bore of bean
cans joined together into a tube will not be sufficiently regular to
afford a useful seal between the plunger and the bore. The cans could
be mounted on a lathe with a boring bar to improve the seal. Denting of
the thin walls is likely, and there is a technical term to describe that
sort of failure: "bean canning". So it would seem advisable to first do
some filling with brass, before the lathing.

The bore size of the pump, being much larger than an ordinary pump, will
produce only large amounts of low pressure air. This is really where
the project fails, and it seems likely that higher pressures of gas
would be achieved by *eating* the beans and directly delivering it via
the well-known anus-Presta connection.

--
Ted Bennett
Portland, OR

Ted said:

Certainly. There are a few details, however. The internal bore of bean
cans joined together into a tube will not be sufficiently regular to
afford a useful seal between the plunger and the bore.

Just leave some of the beans in the can. This works well to seal things up.

Ted said:

This is really where
the project fails, and it seems likely that higher pressures of gas
would be achieved by *eating* the beans and directly delivering it via
the well-known anus-Presta connection.

You might find helpful to lightly grease the presta threads with
Preparation H and/or Lidocaine (Topical)
--

Let the bridges I burn light my way...

Let the presta valves and combo pumpheads I burn light my way before
the autoforms and evil demons find me and tear my expletive deleted
out...
who, said that?

but,to be serious for a moment-

gordon specs CR-18 rims and not the rhino style 3 side by side rim
chambers?
howcum?
further!! no visible disc brake.
hey, what gives here? no disc off the racko?