Originally Posted by
Carbon Unit
When you put the Air Chuck on a cartridge you can turn the head maybe five or six turns before you feel any resistance and that is when you stop turning. If you turn futher, you will puncture the cartridge. I leave it in the bag this way, I just don't puncture the cartridge.
I am been told that a punctured cartridge will last six months or so before it looses all of the gas but I have not tested it. I only puncture a cartridge when I have a flat.
Just so I understand what you do. After storing your Air Chuck in your saddle bag with 5-6 turns of cartridge attachment to the nozzle head.
What is your next step if you get a flat? Do you further tighten the nozzle to the cartridge to pierce the cartridge?...or does depressing the nozzle pierce the cartridge?
Thanks
PS: to me having just used my Air Chuck Elite one time a couple of days ago, it wasn't clear to me I pierced the cartridge by threading the nozzle onto the cartridge...at which point in the threading process...as there didn't feel like a defining point when the cartridge was punctured...cartridge tightened and just stopped.