In my garage, I have a mains compressor, which is piped around the garage, with a self coiling extension by the big door, for inflating my car's tyres - and the rest. All works absolutely great, and so years ago, I treated myself to a decent PCL digital inflator. The inflators' connection to the valve stem, pushes on, and includes a sort of sprung latch, to hold it on. The display head is hand-held, plug into the supply pipe, then it has a 4-foot-long attached pipe, with the valve connection at the far end.
I find I have great difficulty, getting the end to latch onto the valve, and get a proper airtight seal. Sometimes, the only way I can get it to seal, is to latch it onto the valve, then rotate it as if screwing it on, but that process winds up and kinks the rubber pipe up, between the valve of the display unit. It must seal fully, to get an accurate pressure reading.
I have another similar unit, a really cheap job, with a near useless pointer display, which uses a similar clip on to the valve thingummy, at the end. That does tend to seal a little more reliably than the expensive PCL unit.
Am I missing some sort of trick, or knack, to get these things to seal?
It's this type...
I find I have great difficulty, getting the end to latch onto the valve, and get a proper airtight seal. Sometimes, the only way I can get it to seal, is to latch it onto the valve, then rotate it as if screwing it on, but that process winds up and kinks the rubber pipe up, between the valve of the display unit. It must seal fully, to get an accurate pressure reading.
I have another similar unit, a really cheap job, with a near useless pointer display, which uses a similar clip on to the valve thingummy, at the end. That does tend to seal a little more reliably than the expensive PCL unit.
Am I missing some sort of trick, or knack, to get these things to seal?
It's this type...
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