When I make pnumatic guns I have always noticed how expensive tire valves are. Well, through my failure to think, I only just recently discovered that you can, in fact get TIRE valves from, get this, Dead bike tires. They work fine and have saved me maybe 60 dollars that I would otherwise have wasted on buying new tire valves from the hardware store.
Bike Valves
Started by 2nd Sniper, Jan 31 2008 07:20 PM
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:20 PM
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:41 PM
Ummmmm.... Yeah.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 09:11 PM
I wish I could remove topics, yeah, I know, that's the "failure to think" part.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 10:21 PM
Nah, then people would try to get away with stupid shit... You think this thread is exbarresing? Like at my first 3 posts 
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 12:58 AM
Although tube shraeder valves can be used, I find the ones that you buy at the hardware store much easier to use in terms of being air tight. you can't really tap a hole for a bike shraeder... I have yet to figure out how to fix a bike shraeder to pvc such that I could use it in a pneumatic potato launcher... Since I have the background in it. However with nerf, it might as well be either since the pressures aren't as extreme. Thus superior air tightness isn't as much of an issue, it's more of an issue of functionality, not safety.
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 01:21 PM
I wonder if thats why you have to wait so long to get validated...so you can read and see how things work instead of having people post random crap all over the place...Nah, then people would try to get away with stupid shit... You think this thread is exbarresing? Like at my first 3 posts
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 01:34 PM
You've purchased over 20 stem valves? They're only $3 each.They work fine and have saved me maybe 60 dollars that I would otherwise have wasted on buying new tire valves from the hardware store.
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 04:03 PM
Not in my area. I've seen them for as much as 13 dollars. Although, maybe that was one in an instance. Anyways, then I saves 30 dollars.
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