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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Subject: Re: lug nuts
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:30:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:34:10 -0400,
  bfh <redydog@rye.net> wrote:
>  Ted Heise wrote:

> > I actually have one of those, specifically, this Avid Power 
> > pistol grip unit...
> > 
> > https://www.amazon.com/Inflator-Compressor-Cordless-Rechargeable-Power/dp/B08N459G4K?th=1
> > 
> > I've used it regularly for a couple of years because one of 
> > the tires on my Acadia has a slow leak.  When I discovered the 
> > low tire on the trailer, I plugged this Avid unit into the 
> > cigarette lighter of the trailer, set it to 80 psi, and let it 
> > run.  After several minutes (maybe over 10) I noticed it was 
> > sounding a bit strained.  When I checked on it there was a 
> > definite overheating smell to it.  It was not even to 50 psi 
> > yet, but I quickly shut it off.
> > 
> > Since then it's worked okay on my Acadia tires (36 psi), but I 
> > haven't dared try it on the trailer tire.  I'm assuming the 
> > tire was losing air fast enough the Avid wasn't going to get 
> > it anywhere near the rated pressure.  Should I be looking for 
> > a different small compressor?
> 
>  Maybe. Maybe even probably. Better to have too much than not 
>  enough, but if you plug the hole first, it won't lose air as 
>  fast - or at all. 

Valid.  I do have a patch kit on my shopping list.  Pretty soon 
I'll be out of space in the pass through!


>  ...Besides, that compressor you have says: "And not recommended 
>  for vehicle tires wider than 245mm or requiring over 50PSI."

Huh, I missed that entirely.  And I was even looking for that type 
of info.  Duh.


>  Do you carry a spare for the trailer?

Yes, it came with a spare.  Seems to be an equivalent tire, though 
the wheel's pretty basic (i.e., not "pretty").  It even has a cool 
winch like contraption that will lower and raise the wheel up to 
it's storage loction under the pass through.  It took me quite a 
lot of STFW to figure out how to operate it.

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA