[Shop-talk] a question on portable air tanks

[Richard Beels]

I did the same thing.  And I drilled a hole in the threaded end of a 
female connector and zip tied it to the handle of the tank so I can 
never lose the "fill-up" connector.


At 5/1/2008 at 02:52, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Mark J 
Bradakis's keyboard and said:
>The handiest thing I did with my air tank was to replace the tire chuck
>on the hose with a female quick connect fitting.  So out at the track,
>back when I used to do that sort of thing, I could plug in my air tools
>and such.  Also I took a ball valve and put a male coupler on each side.
>So I plug one side of the valve into the shop supply line, the other side
>into the fitting on the air tank, turn on the valve and can fill the tank
>without having to hold a tire chuck to it for seemingly endless minutes.


Cheers!