Found out yesterday the 'blow gun' part of my inflator must have broken or got lost. It was for a kids play ball so didn't need any kind of precise psi so I just pushed the blow gun into the needle and some of the air made it to the ball. Very scientific, but it worked. I'd like a better solution. I could just buy another inflator but I thought it would be a common thing to have either a way to screw it on to my existing blow gun or a tire chuck. My blow gun is similar to this picture
From what I have read the needle's threads are the same as a Schraeder valve but I can't seem to get my Milton tire inflator to work with this needle. Maybe it's a crappy needle, but it looks like the center part in the chuck covers the hole that gets air to the needle. I know on hand bike pumps there is a plastic thing you flip to 'grab' the needle when you use it to inflate balls. Obviously tire chuck doesn't have that.
So I was thinking the simplest solution was to get an adapter that works on the air gun's external threads to the needle's external threads. Somebody has to make one of those right? Otherwise I guess I'll get another one of those 'stubby' blow guns that's made to use a needle and call it a day.
From what I have read the needle's threads are the same as a Schraeder valve but I can't seem to get my Milton tire inflator to work with this needle. Maybe it's a crappy needle, but it looks like the center part in the chuck covers the hole that gets air to the needle. I know on hand bike pumps there is a plastic thing you flip to 'grab' the needle when you use it to inflate balls. Obviously tire chuck doesn't have that.
So I was thinking the simplest solution was to get an adapter that works on the air gun's external threads to the needle's external threads. Somebody has to make one of those right? Otherwise I guess I'll get another one of those 'stubby' blow guns that's made to use a needle and call it a day.
