Portable Air Storage Tanks

[hammersley]

Hey - I have to be sure 30-40 soccer balls are properly inflated daily - usually about 1/3 need some air - not a lot - but some. I hate carrying the balls all the way over to the truck where I have a portable electric pump... .



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007ZAJ8G/002-9719583-5009655?v=glance



I am wondering if one of these tanks would do the job for me????





http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/...0&productId=200025624&R=200025624#productinfo

 

[R-N-R]

I'd go with the compressor, my 5 gal. Craftsman tank runs out pretty quick.

 

[Van Blom]

How about a little Co2 bottle and regulator? I carry a 5 pound tank in my truck for inflating tires after running on sand. I've made 2 baja trips since I bought it and I think I can get at least 1 more trip out of it. Thats alot of soccor balls.

 

[BigMike]

If you're the same Hammersley I've come to know, you could probably just stick a needle in them and blow hard. Seems like you've always had plenty of hot air!!



Hee Hee

 

[BigGunZ]

If you really want a portable tank... I have a portable air tank system that blows everything else away.



Scuba tank w/valve... $125 (a used one is sufficient and can be had for $50 or less)



Cheap scuba regulator with BC inflator hose $175-ish (used for $75 or less)



Adaptor kit for air chuck $20 or less



What you get for approximately $300 or less is a portable air tank that holds 80 cubic feet of air @ 3000psi reduced to 200 psi by the regulator. before I got a compressor in my garage, I was able to top off the tire pressure weekly on...



a truck with 35 inch mudders

a motorcycle

a jeep with 33's

a single axle boat trailer

a tandem axle boat trailer



and barely use a third of a tank

 

[JPope]

"... Scuba tank w/valve... $125 (a used one is sufficient and can be had for $50 or less)



Cheap scuba regulator with BC inflator hose $175-ish (used for $75 or less)... "



If you fill the scuba tank at a commercial place, do you run into any problems getting the scuba tank filled without a diver certification card, or because someone could conceivably use the tank for breathing, now contaminated, though you may not have had the scuba tank filled at a non-breathing gas fill station?



Just curious

 

[BigGunZ]

From what I've seen here in Fl (I'm a scuba Instructor BTW) Shops only care that the tank they're filling is safe. ie: current VIP and hydro inspections. They could largely care less who uses it and for what. If you were to go into a scuba shop and want to spend money on gear... I have yet to see one ask for a scuba card. Only time they do is if you want to rent some of their gear or dive off of their boat.



I've never filled one except at a scuba shop. The only thing that would contaminate one is if it were filled with Billy-Bob's compressor at the local gas station, which wouldn't work out to well anyway... very few folks have 3000 psi shop compressors.

 

[hammersley]

Big Mike -

That hot air I've seen from you could end our energy crisis.....