https://www.aldi.co.uk/ferrex-1100w-portable-compressor/p/805065456050400
Might be of use to some people
We have one of those in the garage and one in the camper. Both bought at half price in the Aldi sale
Never failed to do a tubeless set up.👍
Yep. Mine arrived at the start of the week and did two tubless set ups first go. Blooming noisy though!
Ah, so it is a compressor in the sense of a workshop one rather than just an electric inflator?
It's limited on what it can do. You can't spray a car with it but you can use the air tool for blowing dust out of brakes
It is good at popping on tubeless tyres
That sounds good enough. Off to aldi tomorrow then...
it's online only johnnystorm
Ah, so it is! I'm heading over regardless as there might be an impact driver left on the shelves...
Saves you a trip and usually free postage over £30
Not seen that before. So you plug it into the mains to run the compressor? It's only mains fed? And it charges a little cylinder inside the unit?
Like a very small (portable some might say 🙂 ) compressor, rather than a tyre inflator. The compressor must run a lot to keep the cylinder pressurised?
EDIT - I need a 12v tyre inflator so if it's also 12v fed that would be a huge bonus!)
Does it charge an internal cylinder, or just directly inflate from the motor?
It's mains feed, can't be converted to 12 v
240v mains powered only. No onboard pressure vessel or container. It barely pushes out 20psi as a blowgun or other tool feed. It’s an inflator only. Although when switched on it will build pressure, but that is gone as soon as you pull the trigger.
I’ve got the Workzone branded version. Never tried to mount a tubeless tyre directly with it, but I use it to charge my Frankenflator (modified fire extinguisher) which it will fill to 120psi in less than a minute.
They are noisy, it’s a small compressor that you’d find on the 25litre tanked compressors. But you don’t need to run it for 10 minutes every time you go to the shed to play bike mechanics.
I had one a few years back that I also bought in a sale for half price. I don't think there's an internal reservoir that it pressurises, I believe it's just a pump which builds up pressure in the hose.
For what it is it's a good product, much better than the 12v tyre inflators but as said it's really loud. I found it a bit too noisey for my liking as I live in a mid terrace with a small yard and felt it'd anoy the neighbours if I used it on a regular basis.
I gave mine to my dad for car tyres etc and as far as I know he's happy with it. When I had used it it did a good job on seating tubeless tyres, inflating car tyres and blowing pet hair out of the dog clippers.
thanks all. will skip this and look for a proper compressor and a 12v inflator
I've just ordered one. Cheers @duncancallum! Will hopefully save me a bit of time topping up the car tyres too. Tend to use my track pump at the mo!
Out of curiosity, does anyone use one with a power inverter?
I use a 6l / 12v compressor. Draws 15A though (so need to make sure your battery and wiring is capable)
Definately not quiet either ...
I've got one of these. It's OK but since I got an airshot it doesn't get used. Not unless I need to inflate a car tyre or something. An airshot or equivalent is much, much better at getting a tyre onto the rim. Provided you remove the valve core of course.
The one we have in the camper we use of an inverter or mains hook up.
The one we have at home, older version, is mounted in two U hooks on the garage wall out of the way. It can be lifted out if needed to do the car tyres
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The coolmax under shorts are a nice bit of kit and its always nice to stock up on GT85 at £1.99, anyone tried that muc-off innertube sealant at £7.
Are these good and reliable for tubeless set up then? I could do with something as the track pump is fine for cx/ gravel but I failed on my 27.5+ tyres and had to go into work to use the compressor recently.
I was looking at a £100 small tanked compressor from screw fix to do this/ use at home but this could be an option.
Burko73 Never ever failed to pop a tyre on with it. we have done all sizes up to 3".
The one in the camper has saved a few Enduro riders race days when they have not been able to seat a tyre due to damaged rims.
Are these good and reliable for tubeless set up then?
That's probably as open ended a question as possible.
Most of my rim/tyres go up no prob with a track pump... when they don't it's various reasons not a single one.
I'd be surprised if any compressor will seal a wire bead that's badly bent for example.
On the other hand they are great as you don't need to bother about faff stuff... I like the fact that mostly I just need both beads over the rim and one way or another it will go up from a compressor. (e.g. done I've tubeless conversions in the dark where I taped the rim in the car, checked the tyre was the right way round then used a compressor with brute force. as the car park at 417 has a free compressor)
I'd not have tried to do this without the compressor... in the dark at the end of the day with cold wet kids etc. they may or may not have gone up first time but then if they didn't it would be torches and faff. On the compressor I just stuck it on and felt where the air was escaping .. put pressure on and kept the compressor going until it sealed.
So long answer? I don't think there is a 100% reliable across all rims/tyres/circumstances but a proper compressor will keep on giving.
I find the 6l @ 160 psi works perfectly well and if it doesn't seal in that volume/rate a bigger compressor probably wouldn't help. Without a reservoir/pressure chamber like the Aldi ones you're slipping down the scale.
Just christened my new Ferrex compressor on new 29 x 2.5 and 2.4 tyres.
It took seconds to seat and inflate tyres. The hardest bit was getting the tyre on the rim! Snapped a lever 😔
Very pleased with this. I have an airshot but not needed today.
Glad you like it. 😎
