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I have a big compressor, I have a gun thing, but it only works on schraeder. Does anyone do a hose with a presta thing on the end that I can swap onto my compressor blaster gun?
Thanks
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=presta+adapter
There is a presta inflator somewhere, but it's silly money for what's basically the same £5 inflator you can get anywhere, with a presta end.
The other option is just cut the end off your current inflator and fit the head of a track pump.
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks-hose-connection-for-rennkompressor/rp-prod85736 ]http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks-hose-connection-for-rennkompressor/rp-prod85736[/url]
Just don't get the SKS multivalve head, it's utterly useless at inflating a flat tyre as it relies on back pressure to select which valve to blow air through.
The topeak brass valve is apparently OK (and cheap).
I'm sure I have an adaptor which you can screw onto the Presta valve and then clamp the Schrader gun fitting onto the top.
Unfortunately I've no idea where I got it from, it might have come with a set of Mavic wheel 🙂
ebay.
I got the Prestaflator a few years ago when there was less choice of other adaptors.
Works great at blowing tyres up but the gauge has never inspried much confidence TBH.
I've fitted a Joe Blow head to mine. Works well and I prefer it to the SKS one.
Park do one, but it's rubbish. Buy a 50 p adaptor it's better.
[url= https://www.evanscycles.com/innovations-presta-valve-adapter-EV170954 ]This works for me[/url]
Screw it onto your Schrader head, and leave it there until you need to inflate a Schrader valves tyre.
I just use a screw on adaptor they're about 99p...
I got a hosetail from machine mart and cut the hose of an old track pump. It's great.
Just don't get the SKS multivalve head, it's utterly useless at inflating a flat tyre as it relies on back pressure to select which valve to blow air through.
Very true, it's rubbish, though not any worse than a lot of others out there.
Just get a Silca 17-2 Presta head ([url= https://silca.cc/collections/silca-accessories/products/silca-17-4-stainless-presta-head ]here[/url]). Screws into a Schrader head. Really is the best head you'll ever use, you won't regret it.
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I've fitted a Joe Blow head to mine. Works well and I prefer it to the SKS one.
I swapped my SKS head from my RennKompressor for a Joe Blow and it's good. The SKS adapter head has gone on my Frankenflator and it's fine at that if a bit stiff.
I've fitted a Joe Blow head to mine. Works well and I prefer it to the SKS one.
Yeah, same. Works very well. You can buy the head + tubing separately for ~£15 IIRC.
I just use a length of silicon hose pushed over the end of a cheap air gun and push on the valve. Better flow for inflating tubeless, if it’s a bit loose use a cable tie.
Cheap schreader head for the compressor. Cut off the schreader connector, fit jubilee clip, fit barbed Silca presta head. Tighten jubilee clip.
Thanks, will have a look through the options. I tried a cheap valve adaptor, they just don't work with my POS tyre inflator, they inflator doesn't seal at all, so pisses air everywhere.