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Date:         Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:07:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Nytrogen and tires
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <5622C742.8060104@gmail.com>
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> Quick, someone do the math: after inflating a tire to, say, 40 psi by > adding nitrogen atop regular air at atmospheric pressure, what's our % N? >

Roughly 93%

>> On 10/17/2015 02:57 PM, Max Wellhouse wrote: >> Eric: I have a friend here in Cedar Falls Iowa that fills his tires >> exclusively with nitrogen. He runs a really small tire mounting and >> balancing shop out of his garage and does mobile repairs as well. He >> says that in order to mount tires and fill them with nitrogen, you >> have to make sure the bead sealing surface is absolutely pristine, so >> there's no chance of micro leaks from pitted sealing surfaces. I >> think he charged like $10/tire to do the fill. Not sure how he would >> evacuate the normal atmospheric air form the process, but I have used >> his services on my Vanco II Continentals mounted on Mercedes CLK >> forged aluminum rims(mounted on my 90 GL BTW) and they haven't lost >> 1 psi in like 4 years. I think Tire Rack offers the service as well. >> NASCAR Racers use nitrogen YMMV


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