BOLTR: Chinesium Air Compressor
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 5. 05. 2017
- Cheap junk, yes. Bargain, yes. The sum is worth less that the parts.
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My daughter received one of these as a cheapo gift from my in-laws and I made fun of it constantly. Well, as fate would have it, I was driving her car in the middle of nowhere due to mine being in the shop, and blew a tire. After getting everything jacked and the tire taken off, I found the spare flat and sure enough she had this damn little air pump in her trunk. Well, it took a long time, got hot as hell, but did the job and I was on my way. My daughter bought me one for my birthday to rub it in.
Hugh Janus Funny, I got one of these for a white elephant Christmas gift and threw it in the trunk and hardly thought of it until I came out of work one day to find a tire super low. Plugged it in and sat and listened to the radio while it ran, cut it off when the housing started to smoke and it got me back to my shop. Cheap shit that I don't have to think about, but gets the job done when you need it; what more could one ask for.
Maybe to someone else?
Hugh Janus Remarkably civil response to a piece of living trash.
Cheap as they are, it's much better than using a foot pump. With the foot pump, it would take at least 100 pumps to add 10psi to the tire, while the air pump took at least 5 minutes.
Wtf dude
This stupid little pump saved my ass when on the side of the interstate in the middle of winter in North Dakota at -40F with windchill. Pump definitely didn't overheat, that's for sure
Always uploading at 3 am to cater to the non functioning members of society such as myself
Simpatico.
it's 9am in Europe
08:30 in UK
09:40 in Spain
MaybeACanadian my eyebrows are too coarse =(
I've had one of these little guys for... 15 years. I've used it and used it and used it. Used it on big jeep tires, etc. It's probably got 100 hours of run time on it. The metal bits have melted the plastic bits but she still chooches.
Ah, the perfect thing to watch when alone in bed.
SiloxMedia Rubbing one to AvE are you? Shame. Shame.
str33tb1k3r As Uncle Bumblefuck says, lubricity makes all the difference.
I think he is going to wait for when the tentacle video is released.
Nothing says watching in bed like a little bit of reciprocating piston action, amirite?
guycxz Wouldn't you?
I have one very similar to that, and it's now been topping up tires on three consecutive cars. Over a decade old and still working exactly as crappily as when it was new.
These are great for pumping up 2 tires and wasting an hour of your life.
I got the one that'll put magic tire sealing schmoo in it... that expired 6 years ago.
Perhaps it's because it's late, but I laughed heartily when it first came to life and the words "Look at 'er chooch!" were enthusiastically uttered.
If it looks hot, smells hot, it's probably hot you dingus!
But does it taste hot?
Taste like metal bit misleading
Matthew Heyse idk it burnt them off Iâll get back to you in 2 weeks and try again
I had one of these (Motomaster or Cetified re-brand) in my trunk and used it on a regular basis. Bought it in 2004 and the motor finally packed it in three months ago. I had to re-Teflon the gauge threads and replace the 12-volt plug, but that thing was a tank! Best $15 (I think) I spent for personal roadside flat repairs. Mine warned of a 15 minute 50% duty cycle that I completely ignored too.
i lost it at the 70's bushy porn music what fer the slowmo strokin of the pokin bit.
I laughed so hard :D
I'd love to know the whole song. Anyone who knows the artist/source?
I dont know the exact source but Ron Jeremy put out an album called pornosonic which is nothing but 70s smut music if that's your thing :D
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Let me sleep dad
That got creepy in a hurry.
back to the tool shed with you
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Goddammit Uncle bully, I mean Bumblefuck...
uncle bully! now theirs a name from the past
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end result of the game:
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You should do a surface RA test on the sleeve to determine its surface area roughness
not all sleeves are honed but drawn extruded to the proper ra finish to < 30 ra
Also not all cups(rings) have oil some use proprietary composite to transfer material to the sleeve so scoring is filled in with cup material to aid in break in and lubrication throughout its life at optimal temperatures.
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Love the channel just thought Iâd share
Man... Ive watched so many videos of yours and you just freaking KILL me! Hilarious! Thank you for your videos and incredible insight.
very informative , I like how you get right down to the nitty gritty and expose the simplicity in the design of these Chineesium products :)
Ahhh, reminds me of design for manufacturing class back in engineering school. The ones we took apart where cast in yellow but sure enough it's the exact same everything else.
For how crappy it is, $15 aint bad for the 2 times you use it in the middle of nowhere to get you to a gas station. :-)
Honestly I'd say an old bike pump is better, and probably faster too after fiddling with unwinding & plugging in & winding up the cord. Better exercise too
get the type without a guage, and remove the case, and they are ideal for touring on a motorcycle.
Got two.
Carson Edwards
Bicycle pump with a gauge is like 2x-3x the cost of this thing đ
and get just as hot filling up the volumes involved. For some damned reason, I had to use one to fill several exercise balls at work a few years back, and you couldn't touch most of the bike pump by the time I finished.
What gas station are you going to the does tires anymore LOL possibly buy a can of Fix-A-Flat
split a side laughing at that one . videos that brighten up my day , i can count on your vids man .
Thanks for tearing one of these down. I had one a few years back that came in an emergency kit. After developing a slow tire leak, I busted the thing out a few times to top off. It lasted through 3 or 4 SUV tire fillups before melting, seizing, and smoking.
As a "proud" owner of one of those pumps I have to say that their limit is about 30 minutes of constant operation ... (top up 4 tires and fill a fifth). at that point even the cord was hot and the plug was uncomfortable to touch. but yeah will do the did if the need arises (better to by a new one after some time tho, just think of it like the fire extinguisher or the pharmacy in our car). I find chineseum perfect... if you know what you are buying :P (you only want to "use" (read 'abuse') it once? there is over a 90% chance of the thing getting fubared during first use (even if it is something from a reputable maker)?, do you enjoy fireworks? then buy the absolutely cheapest/crapiest thingy you can find in the shop)
Just buy 3 of them. (a pair and a spare)If one goes out, just grab another. Sure, you can spend $50.00US and get something pretty decent, but will it out last 3 of these? Who knows, it just might!
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Always enjoy all your videos.
"Reasonably tight" - just like my last girlfriend.
disappointed you didnt open the box weirdly
and time it
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That final note you ended onis the best recommendation i've heard of any product to date.
I have one of these! It's slightly skookumer since it has actual bronze bushings on the crank bearing and on the connecting rod, and the head is a cast heatsink. Surprisingly effective!
these things aren't too trashy, I used one like it for about 3 years, always picking up nails and shit with my tires, the failure came from the hose, it cracked and tore, I didn't want to fuck around with changing the crimped on hose out, so I just replaced it. $15 is only $15. I've spent more money on stupider stuff that won't save my ass on the way to work. bet everyone has!
If anything deserves to be Power Fister branded........
Looks more like a finger than a fist ...
Once while discussing cheap Ikea products, a woodworking teacher I really respected remarked, "A $10 cabinet isn't a joke ...it's a bloody MIRACLE!! That you can make a cabinet for so little is incredible!"
I'm working, playing wow, listening to CCR, and watching your videos. you're the shit.
Good! Keep it up!
It may be hotter than a $2 pistol, but is it the fastest thing around?
I like that you can hear the air escaping from the system after you stopped filling.
Got up to have a lung dart, because I couldn't sleep, and low and behold, a new vijio. Thanks for the laughs in the shop.
No fucking way!! I've had one of these for 10 yrs. keep it in my spare wheel for when I ever get flats in the middle of nowhereâ. and to be honest it's never let me down. I will point out my psi reader is threaded on no crimped. nice tear down.
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Just got my "Skookum" tee.....Thanks AvE! First one I will wear at the Bash this year!
I pulled an old Crambel Horsefeild one apart, the one without a gauge, but about the same size case as that'un, the works on it are even smaller. I stuck the guts into an old mil-spec first aid plastic box and it fits under the seat of my motorcycle. I've had use for it on the side the road several times myself, helped an old couple in Arkansas air two tires and get them to their doctors appointment, and for a few years, it was the only compressor I had on hand.
I'm amazed it still works, and still works better than the Slime branded one I got for the other bike a year or so ago.
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9AM here and it was good to watch for the morning coffee ;)
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Thankfully, the URAPeeins are too polite to jump on and scream 'first'. ;)
we don't have to ;)
Really would like to see the snake oil debunking .
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That was hilarious, my stomach is sore and eyes are watering i laughed so hard .
Great video , thanks I needed that :)
love watching your videos high as hell!!! very entertaining!
well I better go grab another beer.
burning the midnight oil. lol
Man, I've always had this scheme of getting like six of these and combining them all together, like welding the crankshafts up, combining the "blocks", and making a manly desk toy thing.
High speed footage was spectacular! Almost made me want to go to the patreon đ€Łđ
:( I miss Lemy. And the ace of spades...
you miss him??? why did you know him??
JimmY I wish... I wish.
Don Johnson miss him so much you've no idea how to spell his name!
Born to lose
Live to win
If the only track you associate with him is that, then you dont miss him at all. Youre prob one of those angsty teenagers trying to get on the hype train
shit I only thought I was going to sleep.
I have that same compressor. It does the job well enough. The gauge is craptacular. I keep it in my trunk, along with an actual tire gauge and I've helped so many people. Bonus points for pairing with a tire patch kit. I've had mine for at least three years and it's been tossed around the back of three different trunks.
Sometimes cheap works. Maybe I got lucky.
I bought a couple of these things from hazard fraught.
first one melted the piston ring thing and wore destroyed the piston, the second one I cooled with lots of ice and thick grease.
it worked well enough to to fill my 5 gallon tank to 120 a few times before the power supply died.
fun little things to play with. nice little motors.
If 75W - 140 doesn't fix it, it's time for some serious measures! Many years ago, I had a Chevrolet K-20 Suburban which had, once upon a time, belonged to Uncle Sam. It came to me from auction with a (Saints be praised!) Muncie M-465 four-speed manual transmission and a New Process 205 transfer case -- and a (Uncle Sam be damned!) bad clutch. Taking the transmission/transfer case out was like removing a Chevrolet "Big-Block" engine from below., and putting everything back was even worse. My first "test" drive revealed that the transmission and transfer case had been used well past their "BEST BEFORE" mileage, prompting me to drain the SAE 90 oil from each and replace that thin, blackened fluid with a 50-50 mixture of SAE 140 (no lower-number "W")and STP.
Although it took almost two hours to get this nearly-as-thick-as-RTV mixture into the gearboxes, driving the vehicle around the block that afternoon indicated that I had, indeed, made the operation of the vehicle MUCH quieter, causing me to ratchet my engineering prowess up by several points; pizza and beer for all!
The next morning, however, found the ambient [outdoor] temperature to be about 30Âș (about 1Âș below zero for those of you who have converted to Satan's system!), and, immediately after I backed out of the driveway, I discovered that, despite the strength of athletic youth, a shifter which was longer than a bull's pizzle, and pure determination/desperation and cussedness, I was entirely unable to change gears from "R" to "[anything which would allow the vehicle to move forward and take me to work]". Some thirty-minutes'-worth of experimentation -- and swearing/thinking/guessing/praying/hoping -- eventually got me moving forward, but quite a bit of head-scratching and other considerations occurred in that half-hour.
After that morning, I would start the engine and allow it to idle with the transmission in first gear (where it was always left the night before), and the transfer case in neutral (where it was always left the night before) for at least ten minutes before even considering pulling out of the driveway; I endured this nonsense for several years before purchasing another vehicle. That Suburban was still running quite well when I sold it; but I never told the [once-]happy new owner that the drive train, while as quiet as could be, had been filled with a mixture which resembled so much saltwater taffy when below 70Âș (21Âș for the Satanists in the North!).
sooo ... 250 psi i can run my air impact wrench?!
Probably! You just have to use a tank in the middle, and wait a really long time to fill the tank up for 30 seconds of impacting.
250 pissies, no f way. You really made me lough buddy. Love your channel
I have one of these as a backup for my hand pump at the track. If you're patient, they will do the job over time. My original use for it was bumping the pressure up in a pneumatic spud gun. I'd use a regular compressor to pump the 6 gallon reservoir up to 120psi quickly, then let the little pump push it up to 250psi. It wasn't fast, but it'd do the job.
Sounds like a mini Hardly Daveson, all you need is da oil leak which comes free of charge with every bike.
Boz Kurt my Harley hasn't leaked a single drop in the 9 years I've owned it..
@@jerrybungard7107 Better check that oil level, sounds empty.
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Nice, definitely want to see some good projects / experiments with these kinds of things!
Comedian .... Mechanical genius... love this guy
Your videos are great but is there any chance you can get a cam with a clearer picture please. I'd miss the 'focus you fack' lingo though :)
Paul Hicks Are you sure your playback quality isnt at 144?
hey you lol checked that right away.
just attach another potato and you're good to go
That box opening was so boring compared to the last one...
This thing saved my life (car tire, bike tires, ...) like a milion times over the 6 years I have it. Still works no problem.
I have a very similar unit that I bought in 2005 or 6 for about $12.50. Have used it many times over the years and amazingly it still jumps around today. In fact used it the day before yesterday to air up the tires on the Oxy/Acy cart. Surprising device considering what it cost.
Ave says "When you compress air, it heats up." No Sir! People say that wrong all the time. We all know when you heat up air (any gas for that matter) it expands. So when you compress it, it has to give up heat. That's the real reason the compressor heats up. The air has to transfer it's heat into the compressor.
The mind boggles.
Not just pointing out you made a mistake. We all make mistakes. But thinking about it incorrectly can make our attempts to mitigate a problem ineffective.
If a gas can't dump it's heat into something, it can't be compressed (practically speaking). The more heat the compressor parts hold the harder it is to dump more heat into them. If you can take away the heat (say aluminum heat sink with a fan) you can make the compressor more efficient.
AvE beer goggles
Not how it works, friend. Temperature is a backdoor measurement of how much energy the particles of that thing have. The more energy, the hotter it is. Compressors work by shoving more air into the same space. More particles means more energy and therefore more heat.
For a gas under pressure the temperature (T) = the pressure (P) multiplied by the volume (V) divided by a constant (k*) i.e. T = PV/k. As you can see, if you increase P without altering anything else in the system (as is the case for an air compressor) T also increases.
*k is the product of the number of moles of gas (n) and the ideal gas constant (R). The constant doesn't change and the number of moles we're talking about changes very little at the kind of pressures this machine works at so I bundled them together. The equation in its usual form is: PV = nRT
I guess there's a nuance I'm missing but it sounds like you said it doesn't heat up and then you said it heats up.
Jeeze wash ur hands after touching that thing.
Christopher Ortega That's what he said!
What doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger!
Gaaaay.
... and wash the vice too.
Andrew Hull
Vice is probably the reason for washing the vise in the first place!
So happy to see this BOLTR
I bought one at harbor freight to keep in my car. I was amazed at the price. I believe I paid 8 freedom dollars for it. The gauge on it isn't accurate. It shakes like a chihuahua. But after about 10 minutes it'll get my tire do up to pressure.
Thanks Uncle AVE!
I have one of those pumps. It is small and a really nice thing to have when you are out in a national park and have a slow leak in a tire. One use and it has paid for its self. The short hose meant I had to find an object just the right height to hold the pump up.
The funny thing is, looking at the insides, I thought "I could design one cheaper to make". They have more parts than needed in mine.
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wolfstar I heard it earlier but caught me in the middle of taking one of my guns apart when it went springensprongen. spent a damn hour looking for a pin the size of my attention span!
I feel like whoever kicked him out of the garage really didn't like him. He says he's still employed in the same position in Gotham Dream Cars. But if it was a normal business deal / move then he would have had some warning and some time to get his stuff together. It really reeks of jealousy "I hate how popular your youtube channel is getting, I'm going to kick you out of my garage. Ohhh not so popular now are you?"
AvE we need you on Reddit
I haven't been shadowbanned since last year, so I think maybe Conde Nast will let me stay for a while.
G FATHER1259 Reddit is shit, stop supporting them. plenty of other non-biased forums you can use for discussions.
AvE I completely respect that and I thank you very much for replying really made my week. you are my hero.
Nice! You should definitely do some more videos using these things for projects! Thanks!
I'm liking the tentacle bend you've been on. No judgement!
First?
yes.
Pat Y Yes
Pat Y first.
Indeed!
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Am I the only 13 year old that watches AVE
Yes and you aren't supposed to be here. So keep quiet about it. It's fucking creepy having kids peeping in the winders.
Andrew Slot Probably, but that's bot necessarily a bad thing
Cody Moncrief
Thank you buddy
AvE's coming up on half a million subs - so no, I don't think you are. He's a cool fuck that his younger audience would be proud to call Uncle (and do), and his older audience would love nothing more than to talk shop with over a beer. I imagine he's got people from 12 on up to 70+ years old watching him dick around. I would love to see his analytics though. I'm twice your age, but I still feel like I might be on the low-end of his average viewer age - but maybe not. I really don't know...
Your son being able to watch someone else take things apart just may satisfy his adolescent curiosity enough to keep him from taking apart your shit to see how it works when you're not around.
this is perfected design. I seen exactly same compressor in early 90s.
Best AvE video evar.
as always awesome videos man
I got a nail in my truck tire on the side of the road in a rural area and only had one of these to fill it after I put the plug in. It took over an hour to fill it. I even disassembled it and put a wet towel on the cylinder to keep it going. 200psi maybe but no dang volume
Love it!! Keep'em coming!!!
Perfect timing, mine failed 2 weeks ago after about 2 years of decent use. The "piston ring" on top of the piston popped off and jammed up the works, I took it apart and snapped the ring back on but the reed valve had been hit by the loose ring and wouldn't seat on the seal anymore. I was genuinely sad, for $10 it worked well enough to fill my slow tire leaks once a week, albeit at 1 psi per minute
11:20 ... "for twenty Minuten", that was even more funny for a native Austrian speaker ... good laugh, thank you!
Jo I got the same thing like for 10 bucks from eBay, I paired it with a 12V motorcycle battery put a switch between and a small 12v lead acid charger. stuck it all down to a plate, mounted handles and now I use it to fill my motorcycles and my bikes tiers. BTW I also added a 12v PC fan on one side to cool the motor (cut one side of casing open, mounted it with hotglue) now you can theoretically run it like forever. quite handy thing
Got this exact compressor for Christmas. Its single purpose to to pump up your tires. It depressurized my tires more effectively than a knife.
AvE, I have one of these, I paid $10 NZD for it. Ugly, cheap chinesium yes, but it works! I've pumped a couple of flat car tyres with it, my kids bike wheels, pram wheels etc etc. I've had it about 5 years now and it's still going. Sure beats a hand pump
I own a different brand of the same compressor. it's cheap and probably doesn't last long, but it's so tiny it fits inside the glove box of my motorcycle and it has saved me from a very very long walk more than once. Simply plugged the hole with a repairkit, inflate to a reasonable pressure and go to the nearest gasstation to inflate to normal since the small compressor takes a while and draws quite a lot from my small battery.
Even once helped out a friend who punctured his car tire so he could have it fixed properly.
So all in all i think it's great, I just wont rely on it to use it regularly, just as an emergency fix for on the road.
Back in the 1980s, I had one of these (minus the plastic case) to power a pair of Monroe air ride shocks. It worked fine (for a while) but the gears stripped because it was always starting under load.
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I keep something similar in my atv riding kit I view these as a 2-3 times use and get another one because there ain't no gatauntees that it will work again. I also keep the co2 cartridge tire inflator for a backup.
I own two different Chineseium compressors, one is about 16 years old, and the other about 5 years old. The 16 year old one (a Campbell Hausfeld from Wallyworld) still works like new (as in, still takes 12 minutes to fill a car tire). The Slime brand one I got about 5 years ago hasn't been great. It fills a car tire slightly faster than the old one, but the gauge on it failed after the first use (not that I would have ever trusted it anyway), and the plastique handle on the "chuck" broke. Went down to the Hazard Fraught and picked up a locking brass chuck head and a barb fitting and she chooches good now!
I was given one of these by my company as a safety award trinket, 25 years ago. It was free. This puppy has outlived six vehicles and has been used for everything from floaties to sports balls, to actual real tires (some fully deflated) and she just keeps on chugging away - it's in my car now. It's a Chinese Miracle.
a kiss with a Chinese hammer!
got me on that oneđđđ man i love this guy
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I had one of these that was similar and did a torture test, pumping up 4 tires from nearly empty non stop. About 15 minutes and tons of smoke later the connecting rod and piston exploded into a bunch of tiny shattered chinesium pieces. It was quite fun :)
I was waiting for the explosion. Gah! I had one like this years ago, could blow all 4 tyres on my fiesta up to 35 psi, and if it was winter, i could warm my hands on the thing. Love the vids man !
My dad used to keep one of these in his truck to air up camper tires if they ever got low. Took forever, and was noisy but worked alright.