Schrader Valve Fittings

[mistletoad]

I need a hose that connects from one schrader valve to another - ie female fittings on both ends - but I don't know where to find one. Is there a special name for this type of hose? Or for the female ends? I need it to run from the air compressor in my van to pump up tires - it ought to be a common enough thing, but I'm having no luck finding one.

[morrowsmowers]

You can buy pre-made lengths of hose and just put on the fittings you need.

Ken in Glassboro, NJ

[mistletoad]

Thanks Ken, but what would those fittings be called? I think this is the problem I am having - I don't know what to call the female fittings that go onto a schrader valve.

[sammyd]

You can get them anywhere you can buy refrigerant supplies. The hoses on gage sets are double female.

[Old Vet]

How do you use the air on your van? If it is to blow an air horm or to breaks you can just cut the lines or go to the air tank and put a breakawy coupling in. Why is it nesary to use a schrader valve any way. Schrader valve are the type that are on a tire that hold presure to me.

[mistletoad]

Cool (excuse the pun) - thank you. Hadn't realised how many uses they had until I began this quest.

[Old Vet]

You are not goin to your air compreser for yur air condition to get air are you? Your tires will not like that much. And it is a closed system and you will then have to add refereregant to the system.

[mistletoad]

My van has a built in compressor for filling tires, pumping up beachballs. Actually I don't know why it is there (soccer mom van?), but it has a compressor and a switch and a schrader valve - all that is missing is the hose.

[Old Vet]

Good I was afraid you were going to use the compresior for the air conditioning. That is a verry useful idea. When you get one it will not be lomg enough to reach your tires but you can cut it in the middle and put a piecd of longer hose in their by useing a couple of air hose repair couplings.

[farminghandyman]

a clip on tire chuck should work,
most any good auto parts shop should have them, and a length of air hose, 15 or 24 feet should work,
http://www.poly-run.com/products/tir...catalog-1.html
or (this is straight chuck with a barbed end for straight into a hose and would need a hose clamp, they have ones that are threaded, as well, for hoses with threaded ends on them)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Barbe...spagenameZWDVW
the "straight" ones I think lock on better (near the bottom of the page) than the angle ones in the middle, I do no think the hold on ones will work very well for you, with a micro compressor, (URL is for illustrations I have no idea of who or what they are).
If you would put a "TEE" with a gage in it by the chuck in the tire end one would be able to see the air pressure that is building in the tire.

they do make a screw on unit, this is the only one I could find easily,
http://www.matcotools.com/Catalog/to...ype=T&cat=2379
LOCK ON AIR CHUCK 1/4 IN NPT
Part#: A560 Price: $17.55 about a 1/4 down, it screws on,

the other place one may look is a quality bicycle shop, for a pump replacement end,

some of the auto motive lock on units lock on very well and some do not, but are cheaper, like in the first URLs a screw on units would be more sure on a low volume air compressor. (I bought a small "emergency inflator" and it take about 30 Min's to fill a car tire from flat, and if there is not a perfect seal on the inflator clip/chuck you will lose more air than it can pump and your tire will go flat, in the attempt to fill it, is my experience, so if you can find a screw on type I think you would have more success.