What is inside a cheap chinese tyre compressor? (1 Viewer)

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My favourite youtuber took one apart this morning so we can see the guts of one..

Surprisingly good in a cheap way.

 
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Damn and I always thought that there was a little yellow guy inside kicking hell out of the diaphragm to get the pressure up. Lol.
 

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Damn and I always thought that there was a little yellow guy inside kicking hell out of the diaphragm to get the pressure up. Lol.
If he kicks the diaphragm in 'time', kind of like a rhythm method them ?

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It's interesting that Trump seems to have gone quiet on trade with China. Hopefully, he's had it explained to him that Apple would not be the company it is today if it couldn't get its devices made cheaply.
The situation may change in a few decades but for the moment we need the Chinese.
 

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My favourite youtuber took one apart this morning so we can see the guts of one..

Surprisingly good in a cheap way.


Had loads they are all crap, taken at least 4 to bits and repaired two only for them to fail again, very frustrating when your out in MH and you get a flat. Bit the bullet and paid a bit more for the RAC 900, there is no comparison between this and models similar to the one above, this includes the £20ish one from Maplin which is also crap ( had two), if you need to blow a flat tyre up to 75 psa by the rac 900!
 
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Had loads they are all crap, taken at least 4 to bits and repaired two only for them to fail again, very frustrating when your out in MH and you get a flat. Bit the bullet and paid a bit more for the RAC 900, there is no comparison between this and models similar to the one above, this includes the £20ish one from Maplin which is also crap ( had two), if you need to blow a flat tyre up to 75 psa by the rac 900!
I wasn't suggesting you buy one of these. Just pointing out that they are surprisingly good for price. The engineering down to a price is impressive.

I have also had 2 of the maplin ones and they both failed after 1 year. I now just use garage forecourts regularly.... Not had a flat outside of this so been lucky I suppose.

I linked the video not as a recommendation of the cheap ones, simply as an entertaining point of interest.

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What suprised me most was that it got that tank up as high as it did. The fact that his good quality PSU overheated and switched off before the pump failed was also amusing.
 

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might manage this

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 

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I wasn't suggesting you buy one of these. Just pointing out that they are surprisingly good for price. The engineering down to a price is impressive.

I have also had 2 of the maplin ones and they both failed after 1 year. I now just use garage forecourts regularly.... Not had a flat outside of this so been lucky I suppose.

I linked the video not as a recommendation of the cheap ones, simply as an entertaining point of interest.
And it was an entertaining point of interest, but it doesn't matter how good they are for the price if they fail whilst trying to pump your tyre up in the middle of nowhere in France, Portugal or Morocco or anywhere else for that matter, as happened to me with the crappy ones, I was hopefully trying to point out that if you pay for a half decent one, you might not get into said predicament!(y)
 

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Ah i'll bet you a tenner that when your RAC 900 fails it also will be when you need to blow up a tyre in the middle of nowhere.
Where is nowhere? lots of people seem to have blowouts there,and always in the center of it??? strange
 

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