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Air pump that will automatically inflate to a specific pressure, and stop?

I was wondering if anyone knew of an air pump that can be set to a specific pressure and will automatically inflate the tire to that pressure? That is, I turn a dial on the pump to a specific PSI, and then I connect the pump to my car tires. The pump will start inflating the tire and automatically stop when it hits the correct PSI.

This would make it a lot easier for me to keep my tires inflated. I have a pump with a tire gauge, but that gauge doesn't display the correct value unless I stop pumping (the act of filling air increases the pressure), and I have to stand there and watch it.

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Timur Tabi
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Timur Tabi wrote in news:60cffcb0-804c-46eb-a4f6- snipped-for-privacy@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com:

I have yet to see a gauge inline with the pump be any kind of accurate at all. you have to use a good gauge to check them anyway. KB

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Kevin Bottorff

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Roy Bragg

I use an El Cheapo Campbell-Hausfeld compressor from Wally that has a tap in the line so I can apply a good pen-style pressure gauge -- That way I'm not interrupting the process to get a reading.

Kinda expensive, but the pump that Firestone uses in the Ride-Rite air springs might do what you want.

Pete

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ratatouillerat

I prefer the kind that keep on pumping and I can stop them where I want them. cuhulin

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cuhulin

A dial gauge would be easier to monitor than a pen gauge because you don't have to keep resetting the gauge by pressing in the pen to take another reading; instead you get an instantaneous continuously varying reading as the pressure increases.

What you want is a domestic version of the pumps that many gas stations have which allow you to key in the pressure that you want, in PSI and/or bar, and then inflate to that pressure and stop with a bleep to alert you - or deflate the tyre if it's already over the required pressure.

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Mortimer

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