XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:53:11 -0700, Bob F   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 4/30/2023 10:21 AM, John Robertson wrote:   
   >> On 2023/04/30 10:53 am, ?????? Mighty Wannabe ? wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> CFC has been replaced by another environmentally friendly refrigerant.   
   >>> I am sure there are other nonflammable propellant out there. Helium   
   >>> may be a good candidate. I can buy a small tank of helium from   
   >>> party-stores to inflate balloons.   
   >>   
   >> Speaking of environmentally friendly gases, I refill my sodastream   
   >> containers and twenty pound carbon dioxide welding tanks with dry ice.   
   >>   
   >> They make and I bought a gadget that refills the sodastream containers from   
   >> the welding tanks (it's just a high pressure hose, valves, and a gauge).   
   >>   
   >> I wonder if they make a gadget like that for filling up tires once?   
   >> It wouldn't have to be carbon dioxide. It could be any non-flammable gas.   
   >>   
   >> The pressure of carbon dioxide varies according to temperature, but even   
   >> nominally at around 850 psi, it would need to be regulated down to   
   >> twentieth of that for a tire, but I wonder if they make a gadget for that?   
   >   
   >They call it a regulator.   
      
   This reminds of me of when an astronaut had finished a space flight, and   
   a reporter asked him what it was like.  He said, "It was similar to the   
   simulator."   
      
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