Presta chuck for shop's compressor?

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott said:

Dropped into my LBS (Supergo) to pick up a Presta chuck to use with my
shop air compressor. Manager told me that she couldn't get Presta
chucks herself, the company that made them is out of business, and if
they needed one in the shop they had to fabricate it. Can this be?

(Even better would be a two-way Schrader/Presta chuck.)

She is mis-informed most likely. LickBike sells them here:
lickbike.comproductpage.aspxOpen ↗

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott said:

Dropped into my LBS (Supergo) to pick up a Presta chuck to use with

my

Quoted message said:

shop air compressor. Manager told me that she couldn't get Presta

chucks

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herself, the company that made them is out of business, and if they
needed one in the shop they had to fabricate it. Can this be?

(Even better would be a two-way Schrader/Presta chuck.)

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

She is sadly misinformed:
http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cgi?d=single&item_id=UB-PB
I can't help you with an inflator that goes both ways, but I recall
that Sheldon mentioned one a couple weeks back.

(Several minutes pass while I backtrack.)

Here you go:
http://harriscyclery.net/site/page.cfm?PageID=49&SKU=PU9997

BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

Jeff the pedantic VW and bicycle nut

Werehatrack said:

On 16 Mar 2005 17:42:35 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

have said:

BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

Jeff the pedantic VW and bicycle nut

You're a pedantic German automobile?

No, Jeff is a pedantic German threaded fastener. 😉

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Tom Sherman - Earth (Illinois)

JeffWills said:

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:
...

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

...
BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

"Westphalia" is the perverted spelling. 😉

[Your cue, Mr. S o r n s o n]

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Tom Sherman - Earth (Illinois)

On 16 Mar 2005 17:42:35 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

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BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

Jeff the pedantic VW and bicycle nut

You're a pedantic German automobile?

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Werehatrack said:

On 16 Mar 2005 17:42:35 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

have said:

BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

Jeff the pedantic VW and bicycle nut

You're a pedantic German automobile?

At your service!

Jeff- a nut behind the wheel or handlebars

OTOH- I've never seen a pedantic VW. I have seen a Hebmüller though:
http://www.thehebregistry.com/

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott said:

Dropped into my LBS (Supergo) to pick up a Presta chuck to use with my
shop air compressor. Manager told me that she couldn't get Presta chucks
herself, the company that made them is out of business, and if they
needed one in the shop they had to fabricate it. Can this be?

(Even better would be a two-way Schrader/Presta chuck.)

Manager didn't look very hard. Six bucks gets you one from
biketoolsetc.com:

http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cgi?id=905865286196&d=single&c=Tools&sc=Tire%20and%20Tube&tc=Pump%20Parts&item_id=SI-24.4

Go down to the hardware store and get a small hose clamp and a regular
Schroeder inflator with gauge, the kind with a rubber hose for the
Schroeder fitting. Cut off the Schroeder adaptor and insert the Presta
chuck, using the hose clamp to hold it in place. Works like a champ:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/silca.jpg

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John ([email hidden])

Tom Sherman said:

JeffWills said:

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:
...

Quoted message said:

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

...
BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

"Westphalia" is the perverted spelling. 😉

[Your cue, Mr. S o r n s o n]

Don't see how I can improve on your effort, Mr. S h e r m a n (banana and
squirrel references notwithstanding).

By the way, I bought a bottle of "Tubless (sic) Slime" last week for a
desert mtb ride, and included was something conspicuously similar to the
pics of the Presta/Schraeder Chuck linked elsewhere in this thread.

It's somewhere in the garage Box o' Doom now.

Bill S.

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"

Quoted message said:

Dropped into my LBS (Supergo) to pick up a Presta chuck to use with my
shop air compressor. Manager told me that she couldn't get Presta chucks
herself, the company that made them is out of business, and if they
needed one in the shop they had to fabricate it. Can this be?

(Even better would be a two-way Schrader/Presta chuck.)

Oh, that is SO wrong...

I splurged and bought myself a dual inflator chuck for my air
compressor. It fits presta or shraeder valves equally well with no
adjustment (and seals exceptionally well with either). It has a large
gauge, and inflate and deflate buttons for one handed operation. One
of the best "unnecessary things" I've bought in a long while.

It wasn't cheap, and CERTAINLY isn't something you'd carry on a bike
(probably weighs 3-4 pounds), but it's SO nice to air up my Jeep and
my bikes without having to futz around with adaptors or using my floor
pump.

I must be getting lazy.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

On 16 Mar 2005 18:41:15 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

have said:

Werehatrack said:

On 16 Mar 2005 17:42:35 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

have said:

BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

Jeff the pedantic VW and bicycle nut

You're a pedantic German automobile?

At your service!

Jeff- a nut behind the wheel or handlebars

OTOH- I've never seen a pedantic VW. I have seen a Hebmüller though:
http://www.thehebregistry.com/

Hate to one-up you, but I've sold parts for one. (In a previous
decade, I was a VW dealer parts manager for several years.)

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:54:44 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

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I splurged and bought myself a dual inflator chuck for my air
compressor. [...]

I must be getting lazy.

Laziness is the mother of invention.

Necessity is just a mother.

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Werehatrack said:

Quoted message said:

OTOH- I've never seen a pedantic VW. I have seen a Hebmüller

though:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.thehebregistry.com/

Hate to one-up you, but I've sold parts for one. (In a previous
decade, I was a VW dealer parts manager for several years.)

Ah, so. My question to you is: which is tougher to work on- an old VW
or a bicycle?

I spent several years selling VW parts over-the-counter at an
independant auto parts store. That job supported me through a battered
'71 Squareback and a '61 crewcab pickup. I found them easier to work on
than bicycles... bicycles always required "tuning", where the VW's
simply required bolting on parts in roughly the right place.

Jeff

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott said:

Dropped into my LBS (Supergo) to pick up a Presta chuck to use with my
shop air compressor. Manager told me that she couldn't get Presta chucks
herself, the company that made them is out of business, and if they
needed one in the shop they had to fabricate it. Can this be?

(Even better would be a two-way Schrader/Presta chuck.)

Topeak makes something that I think they call the Smart Head and they
sell it as an individual part "Smarthead Hose Kit". I think it sells
for ~$20. Your local shop should be able to order it w/o problem.
SKS has one too but it is not as smooth as the Topeak one.

On 16 Mar 2005 21:21:40 -0800, "JeffWills" <[email hidden]> may

have said:

Werehatrack said:

Quoted message said:

OTOH- I've never seen a pedantic VW. I have seen a Hebmüller

though:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.thehebregistry.com/

Hate to one-up you, but I've sold parts for one. (In a previous
decade, I was a VW dealer parts manager for several years.)

Ah, so. My question to you is: which is tougher to work on- an old VW
or a bicycle?

I spent several years selling VW parts over-the-counter at an
independant auto parts store. That job supported me through a battered
'71 Squareback and a '61 crewcab pickup. I found them easier to work on
than bicycles... bicycles always required "tuning", where the VW's
simply required bolting on parts in roughly the right place.

Bikes are far easier to work on; there's at least an entire order of
magnitude of difference in complexity. But then, I used to do a lot
more with an engine overhaul than any of my competitors; case
line-boring, head flycutting, sometimes even cylinder seat machining,
none of which was commonly done by others. By comparison, the number
of things that are mandatory in order to get a serviceable result on a
bike is much smaller. I can assemble a complete mtb in an afternoon
from bits I've got laying around. I'd only be able to do the engine
for a Bug in that time if I already had the parts prepped and ready to
go beforehand, and if it was for a fuel injected automatic stickshift
convertible with air, it would take damned near as long to hang that
beast in the car as to put it together.

Sometimes I miss working on VWs, and occasionally I yearn for my old
two-liter Beetle, but then I go for a spin on a bike or take the
Escort out for a little corner-straightening, and the nostalgia
evaporates.

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There is a specific tool which I recently outfitted all the benches in
my shop w/ that is a metal part not using any hose clamps of any type.
It is actually an airchuck that fits for presta. It does use the Silca
bell end, but this is then manufactured onto an airchuck very high
quality, very shop orinted. That being said, they are not cheap, I want
to say that retail is around $50. I will respond to this post w/
distibutor, and P/N and aprox retail price.

Josh McClure
Durst Cycles

On 3/16/2005 5:42 PM JeffWills said:

BTW: It's "Westfalia", not "Westphalia".

By gum, you are right!

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR