I don't know if there are threaded fittings. Actually when I purchased my talking tire gage from Sears I was also getting tires rotated. I talked to one of the workers about my idea and he quickly put it together for me on his lunch hour. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hodges" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] regulating air flow
Lenny, that's very clever, I'll have to try that. It's such an obvious solution to the problem, but I just never thought of it. Someone, a few days ago, said Sears has a talking tire gauge on sale this week, so I think I'll check it out and try to hook it up to my compressor. Do you know if there are any fittings available to adapt the tire stem to a pipe thread because I don't have a way to braze something. Do you think it could be soldered like copper pipe is soldered, if so, I could get that done. Thanks, Tom From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] regulating air flow The way I check mine is with a talking tire pressure gage. I had a part made that took the brass tire stem from a truck tire brazed to a 1/4 inch male air fitting. I stick this thing into the compressor and using the talking tire gage I can set the compressor output psi. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kennedy" <[email protected] <mailto:bobsworld%40nc.rr.com> > To: <[email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:43 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] regulating air flow When I was in the garage business, they kept air pressure at 180 PSI so you're not likely to damage your tools with a home compressor. As for the regulator, I don't know of a way to read it without sight. Since all regulators are not created equal, you'll have to play with yours to see which way increases pressure. Usually on the ones I've used it's counter clockwise. Go to one extreme and plug a tool in. Then go the other way to see the change. I like lots of air pressure so for my car tools I've got the regulator backed all the way out, and I'm not going into how to increase the pressure setting for the shut off switch but I have mine cranked up a little more than stock. Compressor is 9 years old now so it hasn't complained yet. And I got more than my money worth from it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Hecker To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:49 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] regulating air flow Is there a way for a totally blind person to figure out how to use the air regulator on an air compresser? I know it's a dial you turn, but there is a gage which I assume tells you the air pressure being fed to a tool. So lets say a tool uses 75 to 100 psi. Can you tell when the air pressure is in that range? I'd assume if the tool works, then it's in the correct range. But I wouldn't want to damage the tool by providing too much pressure. Also, which way increases pressure, clockwise or counterclockwise? Thanks for any info. 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