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This is a video response to all the comments like "I would like to paint with an airbrush, but it is very expensive". The presented setup offers a better air supply than all small compressors. Cold air, not heated up by the hot working compressor, stable, not pulsing pressure, complete silent. Check it out
Hi, this is a great vid, I'd forgotten this worked! Tempted to give it a go, but i don't have room for a car tyrle kicking about currently. Does a bicycle inner tube give enough pressure to make this work?
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Bicycle tires hold a much higher pressure than car tires. I routinely ride with 120-130 psi in my bike tires, where my car tires are maintained at 35 psi. Not sure about the amount of time the air would last or the stability of the pressure though, as I'm not an airbrusher.
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Bicycle tire doesn't have the volume to sustain any type of painting session. You'd be done in about 5 minutes.
@ Egregious:
You've got some rockin' bike tires dude, the typical bicycle tire only holds around 60psi.
Another suggestion, if you've got a tad more money than a $20, would be to go hit the hardware store and get an air tank ($20 by itself, typically). It's got a pressure gauge on it, and you can connect all the typical hoses and such to it. Grab an in-line regulator and you're golden. They come in a few different sizes, so it may be a tad easier than rolling a tire around your home
Excellent vid for the beginner.
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You've got some rockin' bike tires dude, the typical bicycle tire only holds around 60psi.
That's pretty typical for a road bike actually. There are almost no ride bike tires that function on less than 105psi. Road bike tubes are even worse for longevity than the 60 psi hybrid/offroad tubes though, because those things are tiny.
Neat video. Seems like it would work pretty well. Around here, in the city I'd have to pay 50 cents per fill on the tires at the local gas station, but that's manageable. As to those suggesting bike tires. It should be possible, but they will loose their pressure pretty quickly. You'd be spending as much time pumping as painting.
Also, this video contains the best quote from a painting video ever. @ 4:11:
"Let's try it out with a spare wheel from my military vehicle" and he's not referring to a model! Only in Russia.
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Cold air, not heated up by the hot working compressor,
I'm afraid the air inside pretty much every car tire out there was infact pumped from an air-compressor, usually an oil cooled air compressor.
Meaning that the air inside the tire pretty much contains water and oil vapors.
This air is certainly NOT better than most small oil free compressors and will still require you to be using airline filters to remove oil and moisture particles.
This isnt to say that a tire isnt a fine way of airbrushing on the cheap. Just dont be so foolish to think that its a better airsource... as the airsource is the compressor that filled the tire!
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Also, what about one of those pressurised garden sprayers that you can pump, again they will loose pressure pretty quick but it another source of compressed air and a bit easier to store than a tyre. Although the tyre will give much more steady air flow.
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