YOYO making a lot of noise

[GregP]

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What really works in an air compressor. Once you’ve used a proper compressor, you realize that a bike pump or even canned air just doesn’t have the PSI needed to give you full confidence that you’ve done the best you can do.

I won’t argue that. I just don’t have the need to have a real air compressor.

The idea of an endless source of compressed air on demand(more or less) is quite appealing.

No doubt. I don’t have one, either… save up batches of my spares and do them when we’re over visiting. Canned air seems to run out too quickly for me. I have a bike pump, but I just don’t feel it does the job.

What we need is to devise a way to store enough pressure in a container by using the bike pump that we can then release on-demand. One pump at a time just doesn’t cut it; we need a tank of some sort. I wonder if I could make something useful with a 2L pop bottle… hmm…

A plastic soda bottle won’t hold the pressure. Something like a small metal propane tank or super-small diving-type tank would be safer. I’m sure if I really dug in, I could find one for cheap. A lot of people buy the equipment for one-off projects and then realize “gee, I really don’t need this anymore” and then dump them off for cheap.

You’re probably right. And then the trick would be attaching the pump in a way that would hold the seal, too…

But we digress!