oneillmartin:
Anyone have the eBay link
Just type in HGV Tyre Inflator and the world`s your lobster…loads of them pop up, from £39.99 upto £59.99 
damoq:
Just google ‘tyre fitter killed by exploding tyre’. Hopefully that should be enough to put you off and leave it to an expert.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That doesn’t sound like an expert.
robroy:
I don’t blow up truck tyres anymore since a guy I once knew lost his face doing so.
Too many potential dangers.
Don’t bother and take it to ATS I would say.
I have always been weary of this, in the early 70’s a guy I knew had his head cut completely off when inflating an old style ‘D’ ring tyre. I do however carry an airline in my truck incase I find a soft tyre, I stand well clear and check the pressure to make sure it does not get too high. It’s a needed item over here because if DOT fid a soft tyre they will put you out of service and call a repair company and also give the driver 9 CSA points on his record, if the driver has the airline and can inflate the tyre on the spot it is not recorded and no points are given, much the same when a bulb is out, if you have a spare with you they will let you go.
By the way ! … My airline connects to the red Susie, not inside the cab.
Here’s the only safety advice you need for inflating tyres. Make sure you have a clip on inflator that means you can stand well away from the tyre sidewall whilst it is being inflated, that is all you need to do/know.
Various styles are pictured in the thread I linked to earlier you can just devise something to hold the trigger depressed of a regular one that will enable you to not have to be next to the sidewall whilst it is inflating.
Conor:
James96:
Yea see what your saying would you say it’s best to do it at a petrol station?Truck tyres are inflated to 100-120PSI. Very few petrol station pumps are capable of managing to do that no matter how much money you put in even though you can set them to that high.
I know some bp stations go up to 135psi
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GOG47:
I used to be on a timber crane hauling round wood out of the woods and we used an airline all the time to get us out into civilisation and a phone signal. One I had had a brass screw fitting that screwed onto an air tank on the trailer. Yeah,it might be dangerous but so crossing the road! It was either that or a 8 or 10 mile walk to try and find a phone or a signal
yep as gog says most of us carry airlines. There is a brass screw on valve behind the front grill of scanias. If you ever venture of the motorway network into the back of beyond you might know things like mobile phones are useless.
Right can all you doom merchants explain that if inflating a tyre is that dangerous why all my tyres don’t explode daily? I have a tyre boss ground pressure system fitted to my tyres, apart from front steer axle. I deflate and inflate the tyres several times a day. Not had one explode yet.
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James96:
Conor:
James96:
Yea see what your saying would you say it’s best to do it at a petrol station?Truck tyres are inflated to 100-120PSI. Very few petrol station pumps are capable of managing to do that no matter how much money you put in even though you can set them to that high.
I know some bp stations go up to 135psi
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No they don’t, conor has spoken, he is right as he knows everything possible to know about everything.
A.
make sure u have a device you can read the psi at without going anywhere near the tyre when blowing it up.
I’ve got a air line for my vehicle that hooks up from air tanks straight to the tyre.
it doesn’t have enough pressure to inflate to the 90psi that I need for the tyre.
Muckaway:
damoq:
Just google ‘tyre fitter killed by exploding tyre’. Hopefully that should be enough to put you off and leave it to an expert.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That doesn’t sound like an expert.
Ex - a “has been”
Spurt - a drip under pressure.
Seems to fit the definition of “expert” perfectly 
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yourhavingalarf:
On my old Volvo FH (circa 1997 ish)…The airtanks had screw in valves on them facing outwards. I got a proper tyre pressure gauge (not cheap) and a length of the correct rubber hose from my local tyre fitters. It saved me a few times when pottering around Europe.
My 99 FH would only put in a 110 you could leave it attached all day long, that’s running off the red airline
of course it was stolen when it went in for a service
Our tyres are Front steers … 89 psi, Drives (super singles) … 105 psi, trailer super singles … 105 psi, trailer doubles 89 psi.
Own Account Driver:
Here’s the only safety advice you need for inflating tyres. Make sure you have a clip on inflator that means you can stand well away from the tyre sidewall whilst it is being inflated, that is all you need to do/know.Various styles are pictured in the thread I linked to earlier you can just devise something to hold the trigger depressed of a regular one that will enable you to not have to be next to the sidewall whilst it is inflating.
split rims used to be good fun. 
Fatboy slimslow:
… split rims used to be good fun.
Yes, but I prefer the trilex wheels my boss had on the Italian truck I used to drive… Once you’d got used to them, they’re far safer, not as heavy and also not so many wheel nuts to deal with. 
dieseldave:
Fatboy slimslow:
… split rims used to be good fun.Yes, but I prefer the trilex wheels my boss had on the Italian truck I used to drive… Once you’d got used to them, they’re far safer, not as heavy and also not so many wheel nuts to deal with.
Are you on about those 4 spoke wheels they used to have on Fiats?
I once lost one of those in Walsall 
.
Spent a day and a half 
at the Iveco garage, the name is burned on my brain even though it was as far back as 1980…Ackers and Jarret.
Give me strength?
You really believe that the dashboard shrouder valve is to blow up your [zb] tyres !!!
I thought you people were “professionals” WTF?
The dashboard valve is so that you can connect one of your rear tyres to the braking system to lift the spring brakes so that you can get off,say the motorway onto the hard shoulder if your compressor etc goes down.
FFs gentlemen .A little bit of knowledge goes a long way.
Connector to fit the spare connection valves on airtanks, 40ft of air line, normal tyre valve fitting at the other and you’ve got a line that will get you out of the crap cos you can always find an airtank close enough.
New Volvos in the days of FL’s used to come with emergency airlines kitted out like that, one might still be lurking with me
No you wouldn’t use one for professional tyre changing purposes but if you discover a slow puncture it might mean you can carry on for a while until convenient.
^^^PS wot’s a shrouder valve?
Juddian:
Connector to fit the spare connection valves on airtanks, 40ft of air line, normal tyre valve fitting at the other and you’ve got a line that will get you out of the crap cos you can always find an airtank close enough.
New Volvos in the days of FL’s used to come with emergency airlines kitted out like that, one might still be lurking with meNo you wouldn’t use one for professional tyre changing purposes but if you discover a slow puncture it might mean you can carry on for a while until convenient.
^^^PS wot’s a shrouder valve?
And how do you blow your brakes off with poxy air tank connectors? The none return valves stop back blow.You blow through the shrouder/shrader valve that feeds into the APU inlet.
You ever heard of an air brake system?One tank will not feed another each circuit is isolated from the other.
Bking:
Juddian:
Connector to fit the spare connection valves on airtanks, 40ft of air line, normal tyre valve fitting at the other and you’ve got a line that will get you out of the crap cos you can always find an airtank close enough.
New Volvos in the days of FL’s used to come with emergency airlines kitted out like that, one might still be lurking with meNo you wouldn’t use one for professional tyre changing purposes but if you discover a slow puncture it might mean you can carry on for a while until convenient.
^^^PS wot’s a shrouder valve?
And how do you blow your brakes off with poxy air tank connectors? The none return valves stop back blow.You blow through the shrouder/shrader valve that feeds into the APU inlet.
You ever heard of an air brake system?One tank will not feed another each circuit is isolated from the other.
Seeing as the question was about blowing the odd tyre up, and these airlines do that fine, i fail to see what blowing brakes off has to do with the price of fish.
Whatever
What can one say?
robroy:
dieseldave:
Fatboy slimslow:
… split rims used to be good fun.Yes, but I prefer the trilex wheels my boss had on the Italian truck I used to drive… Once you’d got used to them, they’re far safer, not as heavy and also not so many wheel nuts to deal with.
Are you on about those 4 spoke wheels they used to have on Fiats?
I once lost one of those in Walsall
Spent a day and a half
Yes, that’s them. Had them on the car transporter the police use to ram through the door in The Italian Job.