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To: Oztrich Boy

I have a front wheel drive Chrysler. The weight up front squishes the front tires enough so they look under inflated.

Rather than get out my pressure gauge every time the tires look like they’re going flat, I got some valve stems that are really neat. They are rated for 32 psi and have green little rims that go red if the pressure drops a certain amount. You can tell at a glance if the tires are low or not. Tres cool.


26 posted on 09/23/2017 10:19:42 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

Wow, do you have a link to wherever you bought them?


29 posted on 09/23/2017 10:33:53 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: sparklite2
I got some valve stems that are really neat. They are rated for 32 psi and have green little rims that go red if the pressure drops a certain amount.

The hollow spars of the main rotor blades on the Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter are pressurized. If a crack develops, they loose pressure. So a pressure indicator very similar to your tire valve indicator was fitted.

It had alternating black & white rings inside a cover with alternating clear & white rings. Fully pressurized all was white. Loss of pressure showed black-white-black-white. They were called BIMs - Blade Inspection Monitors.

58 posted on 09/24/2017 3:41:19 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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