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Wanting some way of inflating a matresses and pool tube with my in car ARB compressor. Does an adaptor exist to convert it to a higher volume output?

Otherwise do the ones from supercheap and the like work?
Thanks Steve

your ARB is very low volume of air. better to buy a smal electric one from a camping store or kmart. I sell some that are around $20 so it is not much, and heaps quicker than using he ARB and cheaper to replace.

Agreed i blew a single air bed with a blow nozel (supercheap item) fixed to a hose to my ARB....stuck in the mouth peice of the matress.....it took ages to blow up.

i recently had to do it again but with a "el-cheepo hi volume" maybe just under 30 seconds.

the ARB is only really to work lockers....just abut useless at everything else. Of cause in cases of need its better then nothing.

I would prefer to be able to use the ARB not becuase I don't want to spend the $20, but its more crap I have to take.

I was thinking along the lines of an attachment that you put on the end of the hose which would drive a small spool/fan requiring high force and low volume, this inturn would spin a larger spool/fan on the otherside which would drive a larger volume of air. If that makes sense to anyone

Kinda like a gear sytem converting the high pressure/low volume of the ARB to low pressure high volume.

bruiser wrote:I would prefer to be able to use the ARB not becuase I don't want to spend the $20, but its more crap I have to take.

I was thinking along the lines of an attachment that you put on the end of the hose which would drive a small spool/fan requiring high force and low volume, this inturn would spin a larger spool/fan on the otherside which would drive a larger volume of air. If that makes sense to anyone

Kinda like a gear sytem converting the high pressure/low volume of the ARB to low pressure high volume.

Your an idiot!!
Won't that mean taking extra gear anyway? With your spoon fans. Go Buy the $20 high volume pump for christ sake.
Fair bloody dinkum.

Even my Maxair @ 72L / minute takes an eternity to pump up an airbed; ARB compressors are rated at a lot lower output...

The cheapy airbed inflators are less than $10 (when on special) are lightweight and compact..... best of all they are amazingly quick. I reckon mine would take less than 30 seconds and doesn't suck huge amounts of current out of your battery like a compressor does.

bruiser wrote:Wanting some way of inflating a matresses and pool tube with my in car ARB compressor. Does an adaptor exist to convert it to a higher volume output?

Otherwise do the ones from supercheap and the like work?

Thanks Steve

tyre pumping compressors are no good for air bed as they low volume high pressure pumps. buy a high volume pump designed for airbed at a camping store. coleman make the best ones at about $35

DR Frankenstine wrote:

bruiser wrote:I would prefer to be able to use the ARB not becuase I don't want to spend the $20, but its more crap I have to take.

I was thinking along the lines of an attachment that you put on the end of the hose which would drive a small spool/fan requiring high force and low volume, this inturn would spin a larger spool/fan on the otherside which would drive a larger volume of air. If that makes sense to anyone

Kinda like a gear sytem converting the high pressure/low volume of the ARB to low pressure high volume.

Your an idiot!!
Won't that mean taking extra gear anyway? With your spoon fans. Go Buy the $20 high volume pump for christ sake.
Fair bloody dinkum.

LOL. Yeah, just get and carry the hi vol one. Even the Coleman one is only $30

by the time you made your spool fan thingy it would prolly be biger than the air matress pump I know what you are saying, but if you get the cordless one you have a matres blower uperer, a fan and a billows for getting he fire roaring in the morning.......seriouly though, they are not very big, stick it under your seat

I was not wanting to make one, but wanting to know if something like this existed on the market.
Also no shit it is low volume high pressure for those who keep telling me what I already know and stated at the start.

bruiser wrote:I was not wanting to make one, but wanting to know if something like this existed on the market.
Also no shit it is low volume high pressure for those who keep telling me what I already know and stated at the start.

the problem is that despite very little market anyway, an air motor is very inefficient, the CFM @ the pressure rquired to make anyhing work is greater then an ARB would provide. I dont think there would be anyhing around to do what you want.

if you are that concerned fir an on board air. the one i made from a york would blow up an entire 3 person boat in prob 7 seconds as it inflated the bull bar (4") whilst driving to 150psi then when i stopped open her up and its done. you can then also run air tools/spools mine cost me $15 for a belt, $10 for tube and ball valve, and the rest (compressor and building brackets) was free. i even fitted a cycle switch and a pressure gauge that i also aquired from a redundant machine at work.