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Old 03-19-18 | 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Witterings
I did have another thread running on this as well to see if I could find what the problem was ... some of the chucks on the end of the inflator aren't great and were struggling to get a proper seal so you couldn't get an accurate pressure reading which I think was caused as the pin in the presta popped back out with the pressure from the air in the tyre ... it was also a lot worse on one tyre than the other where they had slightly different valves .. one had no thread / retainer and is the one that caused the worse issue.
I had issues trying to figure out how far to unscrew the core on my presta stems when using a Schrader adaptor, seems like some times air wouldn't go into the tires. Took a little adjusting to figure out where it needed to be.
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