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BlackjackNA

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Canadian Tire has some leaf blowers on sale this week. An electric one has 450 cfm, $99, and a gas-powered model has 650 cfm, $199.

I'm just wondering if these units could be mcgivered into potential air compressors. Construct some adapters to the nozzles of the units, and voila: have more cfm than you'll ever need!

Yea/nay?
 
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I little thread hijack.. As a young lad I was fond of going on long off road adventures with a few buddies and our dirt bikes. None of us worried about breaking down it was more a matter of just not getting caught by the cops on the road and not running out of gas. Well one of us got a flat tire. The goober of the clan had this tool pouch thing he had on his bike for years but never once opened so this day was the day. It had tire irons a long hose a spark plug wrench and a goofy looking thing that looked like a spark plug but it had a place to put one end of the hose on. After looking at it for a while we realized that you take out the plug on the motor and screw this thing in and then the hose and the hose to the tire and voila it’s a tire pump.. Genius!

Too bad we did not have any tools to take the tire off the bike or a patch for the inner tube.. We called for help and after pleading with some of the older siblings they drove out with some tools and a new tube and that crazy air pump thingie worked.. With a bunch of kicks of the kick starter we were golden.

Ya never know what can be a compressor till you see it for your own eyes.. that said not sure the leaf blower could pull it off..
 
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wnstwolf said:
I little thread hijack.. As a young lad I was fond of going on long off road adventures with a few buddies and our dirt bikes. None of us worried about breaking down it was more a matter of just not getting caught by the cops on the road and not running out of gas. Well one of us got a flat tire. The goober of the clan had this tool pouch thing he had on his bike for years but never once opened so this day was the day. It had tire irons a long hose a spark plug wrench and a goofy looking thing that looked like a spark plug but it had a place to put one end of the hose on. After looking at it for a while we realized that you take out the plug on the motor and screw this thing in and then the hose and the hose to the tire and voila it’s a tire pump.. Genius!



Too bad we did not have any tools to take the tire off the bike or a patch for the inner tube.. We called for help and after pleading with some of the older siblings they drove out with some tools and a new tube and that crazy air pump thingie worked.. With a bunch of kicks of the kick starter we were golden.



Ya never know what can be a compressor till you see it for your own eyes.. that said not sure the leaf blower could pull it off..
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No offence but ya we do know what can be a compressor. An engine by design compresses a lot. A leaf blower will have a higher outlet pressure than inlet pressure but it's so small as to be negligible for the discussed purposes. Fans, vacuum cleaners and leaf blowers will all to some degree fall into HVLP. The LP being low pressure. You could name a lot of pieces of equipment with components in them that might be able to be a makeshift compressor and a bunch that wouldn't. A lot of us would get most or all correct.

If you wanted to stick that spark plug gizmo into the plug hole of a gas leaf blower you might be able to pump up a tire. I'd call that a tire pump. The volume in cfm yanking the chord would be so low as to be useless for any other purpose. Same for a bike engine.
 
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It works for blowing up air mattresses...as long as you have a funnel to kneck down the blower tube. Thats about all the compression you will get with a leaf blower.
 
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My wife is a middle school science teacher. Every year, a big week is for all classes to split into 3 person teams, then build hovercraft from plywood, tape, staple guns, visqueen, and powered by electric leaf blowers. Then they run them right down the hallway. If I wasn't so big, I would build one and ride myself.


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StingRay said:
Yup Red and Green. LOL
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Yup! This is what occurred to me when I saw the OP's location!!

The spark plug adapter/air hose rig was a valid tool that used to be available (back in the 1950s) and was often carried in a farmers toolbox. Got a flat tire? Take out one of the tractor engine's plugs and insert the adapter. Start the tractor and as it chugs along on 3 cylinders the 4th cylinder pumps up your tire!

My uncle had one of these things. He couldn't afford an air compressor so all of his tire work was done with this spark plug rig and his Ford 9N.
 
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Maybe his idea isn't so far fetched. In today's 'newspaper' there is a 'story' on how an already established windfarm in Wyoming plans to store the wind (air), in underground caverns in Utah, then pump it out, compress it, and use the compressed air to run a generator, and put this power into the grid, and send it on to Los Angeles.

Wind-farm plan to power L.A. hinges on huge Utah caverns
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26599453/wind-farm-plan-power-l-hinges-huge-utah
 
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Just remember that the spark plug adapters and airing tires up, your filling the tire up with raw gas fumes, when the tire blows it really blows, don't ask how I know this.
 
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Spark plug air compressor. HUM, so now the inner tube become a bag of air / fuel mixture. Wonder if any every went BOOM!?!?!? Or I wounder what one would sound like going BOOOOOM? :evil:


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