Locking air chuck suggestions?

[TechnoWeenie]

Used a couple supposed locking chucks and they're horrible. Gotta hold them in place..

Doesn't help to have a 50' air line with the regulator, valve, and gauge 30' down the line when you have to be @ the tire to hold the chuck..



My current setup is....

Glad hand adaptor -> 20ft hose -> valve -> Psi Gauge - 30ft hose -> chuck


Everything is working swimmingly, except for the chuck.


Suggestions?


(FYI, G177s, not super singles)

 

[sweetk30]

you want what they call a EUROPEN chuck . http://www.bowessealfast.com/c-264-euro-style.aspx

there is 2 styles also . open / free flow for tire machines and other devices with control of air flow .

then there is a closed style for just on a air hose with air all the time.

I have had 11.00r22.5 fall over on them and snap the brass valve off the rim and still be clipped to the brass valve.

all the rest of the socalled locking / clip on fillers suck anymore .

 

[JohnnyBM931A2]

Cool Sounds like those work pretty well.

 

[sweetk30]

for years now that is the style that comes on new tire machines .

there is a square cut oring inside that can be flipped once worn a bit then replaced if you so wish . but by then its worn and ready for a new one.

just make sure you can get your hand with the chuck in duel rim holes for the inner valve and or if singled out the back side .

this wont reach backwards like a duel head for normal duel rim use with small holes for the inner vale to be seen .

 

[JohnnyBM931A2]

Used a couple supposed locking chucks and they're horrible. Gotta hold them in place..

Doesn't help to have a 50' air line with the regulator, valve, and gauge 30' down the line when you have to be @ the tire to hold the chuck..


My current setup is....

Glad hand adaptor -> 20ft hose -> valve -> Psi Gauge - 30ft hose -> chuck


Everything is working swimmingly, except for the chuck.


Suggestions?


(FYI, G177s, not super singles)

Dumb question, but why don't you just join those 2 air lines together, then put the valve, gauge, and chuck near the end?

 

[m16ty]

Are you saying you have a regulator on the line to fill tires? If so, remove the regulator and run full pressure on the line, your tires will fill up much faster that way.

 

[TechnoWeenie]

Dumb question, but why don't you just join those 2 air lines together, then put the valve, gauge, and chuck near the end?

I'm not trying to be a &$#*, but if you don't know why, you shouldn't be messing with deuces, 5 tons, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKlJJqHFfoQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkiz1uWCF0Y

 

[frank8003]

when you have to be @ the tire to hold the chuck.. Everything is working swimmingly, except for the chuck. Suggestions?

I will not hold the air chuck on by hand when I air up. I hide on other side of the truck, behind stuff.
I have tossed away about six chucks now and finally found one that will stay ON with a bit of trial/error. It is a "free flow" Milton chuck as pictured. It is an Milton S690 or S693, can't remember The problems also have to do with the external threads on the inner tube valve also being worn.
Actually I just finished all of that job last week.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...to-your-deuce-this-week&p=1748867#post1748867

 

[TechnoWeenie]

I will not hold the air chuck on by hand when I air up. I hide on other side of the truck, behind stuff.

My point exactly.

 

[Castle Bravo]

If I were adding 15 psi to a G177 tire on a 5 ton wheel that already had 50 psi in it, I would not worry about it blowing up on me. The danger is only when the bead of the tire is not seated correctly. If the tire has no pressure at all in it, it may be prudent to take some precautions. The BII air inflator gauge and lever is only a few feet from the chuck.

Still, never say never, and my opinion is worth what you paid for it.

 

[frank8003]

Milton S690 or S693

 

[m16ty]

When dealing with these big tires and pressures involved you're never 100% safe. Standard practice in the industry is to use a cage and have the gauge either as a separate device or the gauge mounted close to the chuck.

As Castle Bravo has stated, you're relatively safe adding air standing at the tire when you are just topping off a already inflated tire. Even more so with duals as if a ring lets go, it will be captured by the duals.

In the tire cage vid above, the demo was mainly testing the cage. The tire in question was over inflated until the point of failure. Not something you're likely to incounter if your watching what you are doing and following standard tire safety.

With all that being said, I have personally seen a sidewall blow out on a tire that had been run low. It was a pretty big bang but nobody was seriously hurt.

 

[JohnnyBM931A2]

I'm not trying to be a &$#*, but if you don't know why, you shouldn't be messing with deuces, 5 tons, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKlJJqHFfoQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkiz1uWCF0Y

Fair enough. I just thought it was odd, since my "factory" air inflator with glad hand adapter has the chuck right near the end like a regular car tire inflator. If the tire explosions were such an issue you would think that they would have ordered different ones.

 

[JohnnyBM931A2]

when you have to be @ the tire to hold the chuck.. Everything is working swimmingly, except for the chuck. Suggestions?

I will not hold the air chuck on by hand when I air up. I hide on other side of the truck, behind stuff.
I have tossed away about six chucks now and finally found one that will stay ON with a bit of trial/error. It is a "free flow" Milton chuck as pictured. It is an Milton S690 or S693, can't remember The problems also have to do with the external threads on the inner tube valve also being worn.
Actually I just finished all of that job last week.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...to-your-deuce-this-week&p=1748867#post1748867

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I sit in the cab and let the CTIS inflate the tires

 

[Keith_J]

Always use a clip on chuck when inflating from nothing. The best are the thread on types but I don't have a handy source at this moment. Yes, a regulator will slow it down but it makes it automatic. Just set it and hide in your bunker with air conditioning and sweet ice tea.

 

[Ford Mechanic]

I use a push on chuck from NAPA it looks and operates like a female air hose chuck