Originally Posted By: JHZR2
I use a bike pump exclusively. Those little cheap 12v inflator a are more trouble than they're worth. Maybe an expensive Vlair would be ok, but I'm not interested in those.
I agree about cheap 12V inflators. I've owned several. In every case they broke when I needed them most. All were very noisy and very slow, requiring manual cycling on/off to comply with the manual duty cycle time- and yet they still burned out.
I'm not sure what you mean by expensive. My Viair 88P currently lists for $60.35 on Amazon. That's less money than the combined price of all the broken cheap 12V inflators it replaced. My 88P is not quiet but not overly shrill, and gets the job done in about a minute. Of course a good bicycle pump is a perfectly fine option. My Joe Blow is, what, 15 or 16 years old, still works fine.
I use a bike pump exclusively. Those little cheap 12v inflator a are more trouble than they're worth. Maybe an expensive Vlair would be ok, but I'm not interested in those.
I agree about cheap 12V inflators. I've owned several. In every case they broke when I needed them most. All were very noisy and very slow, requiring manual cycling on/off to comply with the manual duty cycle time- and yet they still burned out.
I'm not sure what you mean by expensive. My Viair 88P currently lists for $60.35 on Amazon. That's less money than the combined price of all the broken cheap 12V inflators it replaced. My 88P is not quiet but not overly shrill, and gets the job done in about a minute. Of course a good bicycle pump is a perfectly fine option. My Joe Blow is, what, 15 or 16 years old, still works fine.