Lee Schierer
USNA '71
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The rate of increase in nitrogen in your tires is directly proportional to the rate of decrease in the money in your wallet.
This is exactly my question ^^^^.
"Filling with nitrogen" would seem to imply that 100% of the internal voume would then be nitrogen but that's impossible unless you create vacuum before filling it. It might indeed be that nitrogen has all these benefits but how much "nitrogen" are you actually getting?
Erik
Ex-SCM and Felder rep
Art - corrected it for you.
I scored on #1 and #2, but failed on #3.
But, thanks for the lecture.........which is promptly consigned to #3 as well. But - I know I can get back to you, as the need arises.
You realize I was simply passing along the marketing pitch, don't you?
Last edited by Ken Fitzgerald; 07-02-2015 at 4:59 PM.
When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.
not only the tire but also the hose
I fill my tires with xenon. It is heavier than air and therefore keeps my vehicle well-grounded.
For years, I worked in the pet trade. More specifically, the live aquarium fish trade. The common practice of "bagging fish up" for the customer to take home involves placing some aquarium water in a little polyethylene bag, netting up the fish, dropping it in that water, inflating the bag somewhat, and securing the top into a sort of knot, with a tiny rubber band. Like a small balloon with water and live fish. This is how everyone does it. For years, I kept hearing, "Don't blow from your mouth into the bag because the CO2 in your breath will kill the fish". Some fish stores even touted using compressed air or even O2 to fill their fish bags with for the ride home.
I have probably bagged thirty or forty-thousand fish, blew in every bag from my mouth, and guess how many fish died on the ride home? Zero.
There's probably some science in everything but potentially a lot more hocus pocus. Just my 2-cents as always.
Erik
Ex-SCM and Felder rep
We were using nitrogen twenty five years ago in our off road race truck. With 900hp spinning the tires constantly temps would go way up with O2, so you use nitrogen to control it. We still had to start a bit lower than we ultimately wanted, but not as bad as O2.
Tires only lasted 15 minutes, so wear/aging was not our concern. Besides, I have never seen a tire rot from the inside.
Sounds like a lot of hot air to me. I'll fill my tires with nitrogen when the NFL begins to fill footballs with nitrogen.
"See, it wuz that leaky O2 that done it, it wuz!" -Tom Brady quote*
-Tom
*That I just made up