air shox

[Goodbadugly]

Well there you go!

 

I don't know how to pump it seems.

Hoevvil kinners het jy?

[Goodbadugly]

Die garage het 'n groot pomp met min druk. Die vurk het 'n klein pompie met baie druk.

[Johan Bornman]

Pressure and volume.

Pressure is measured in bar (psi or KPa)

Volume in liters.

My Reba fork is pumped at 100psi (or 7bar) 1 bar = 100kPa.

My garage compressor inflates to 6 bar. Then the safety device kicks in and shuts off the motor. So even if I was so inclined to try this, it will be impossible to inflate the fork to 7 bar using my 6 bar of pressure. It is also not very likely that you will damage a chamber that can take up to 15 bar with a pressure of 6 bar.

The compressor at your local garage probably delivers a pressure in the region of 4 bar (not many car tires are pumped higher than this, so there is little point in putting the stresses of a 6 bar pressure on the system.

Now for the volume.

As noted by some of the other hubbers, the chamber of the fork is minute. So getting the pressures just right with this large volume devices might be difficult.

Another point is that it might be difficult to get the connection to fit properly onto your fork. A not so proper fit will make it virtually impossible to get your pressures right.

So buy a proper fork pump.

A Fox RL 100 that I had only required 70 psi, so in theory it would be possible to pump this at the Engen garage.

Nice to see some sanity popping through every now and then.

 

Keep it up.