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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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This is for sale on a Facebook auction page, too rich for me , but a cool piece.
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That was the only air on the farm we had for years. I still have the complete set. Box with adapters but not the bag it came in. It was a Ford bag. We carried it in tractor tool box. Most people don't know what it is. LOL
 
Think again about what you said.The compression only operates an air pump, NO gas ever goes into tire only clean air. The engine only operates an air pump the same as the electric motor on your shop air compresser.
 
Nothing explosive about it. After we went to LPG tractors we used the propane tank for air. That was explosive!!! LOL Saw a guy repairing a tire he removed from a cotton trailer, inside service station with a open fire heater. When he removed the core to let air out it ignited from heater, fire shooting out of stem he opened door and rolled it down the street. After that he ask if they had used propane to air tires up. He removed core outside after the fire. LOL
 
Leroy maybe I need someone to explain the concept to me.

I'm thinking a adapter is put in place of the spark plug.
A hose runs directly from this adapter to the tire.
Compression from the cylinder (that includes a air gas mixture) is pumped into the tire via this hose.
So tell me where I am wrong and how it really works.
 
Used one here for years. Always worked great. Need to dig it out. May have lost it when the 2011 tornado can me thru.
 
The adapter that screws in the sparkplug hole has a reed type valve in it. As the piston moves down in the cyl. air is drawn into the cyl. thru the spark plug hole by means of the reed valve then exhausted back thru the adapter into the hose and into the tire. Look at the slits on the side of the adapter and the reed inside the slits. The intake manifold has a lot of vacuum on it so it's easier to suck air thru the adapter than the gas/air mixture from the intake. That's the way my dad explained it to me many years ago.
 
(quoted from post at 10:38:43 12/12/21) The adapter that screws in the sparkplug hole has a reed type valve in it. As the piston moves down in the cyl. air is drawn into the cyl. thru the spark plug hole by means of the reed valve then exhausted back thru the adapter into the hose and into the tire. Look at the slits on the side of the adapter and the reed inside the slits. The intake manifold has a lot of vacuum on it so it's easier to suck air thru the adapter than the gas/air mixture from the intake. That's the way my dad explained it to me many years ago.
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our Dad knew how it worked.
.........and to alieve the anxiety in some folks, please note that the explosive limits for air/gasoline are 1.4% to 7.6%, so anything leaner than 1.4% or richer than 7.6% won't explode.
 
Didn't know these existed. But I bet when tractor tires were introduced in the 30's, there was a big issue on airing them up. My grandfather had a car long before a rubber tired tractor. Also a truck together with his brother. But, I am guessing they just had a hand pump for those tires. Probably wouldn't of worked for a rear tractor tire. Especially one that was leaking. Always wondered what they did.
Grandpa had an electric air pump when I came along. Worked much like a hand pump. Hook hose up to valve stem, and plug her in. Unplug it, or take hose off when you thought tire was inflated enough. I can remember that being in use clear up untill dad decided to paint Grandma's house, and decided to spray it on. Dad bought an actual air compressor for the farm at that time. Been an air compressor on the farm every since.
I bet it was clear up into the mid to late 80's that they got by with just that old air pump, before an actual compressor came onto the scene.
Its amazing what people did for so many years before improving upon it, just because what they were doing worked and got them by.
 
I bought an H that had a valve on the manifold , I think on the intake , you hooked your milk machine suction to it and opened the valve ,the compression of the tractor pulsated the milkers
 
I have a few of them around the farm.Used them before buying my portable tanks. Dealer gave dad a new one in 1948 when he bought a new Gmc pickup.There is a valve in them to suck fresh air from outside and not the intake of the truck or tractor motor.The adapters let you use it on different plug sizes.Great tool to get you home or air that flat implement tire out in the field
 
Hi Jon, If you had never used one I could easily see how it appears to suck air from engine.They are very noisy to use, there is slots in valve to suck in fresh air from outside.Almost every equipment dealer had the hanging on the shelf to sell and gave them out to customers as they were inexpensive at the time.
 
Source of ignition inside the tire? If it goes flat, that means all the mixture has leaked out, so very little fuel anymore. Many thousands sold back in the day, never ever heard of one explosion from a inflated tire. Meh - I'm ready to be shown I'm wrong.
 
I have one that was my grandfathers. He never owned an air compressor, just that setup you pictured. I think it was called engineair, it did not put fuel /air mix into the tire , but pulled in fresh air. It has been quite a while since I used it but they do work.
 
Had more than one at home. Have one yet, weather any good or not. Made air compresser out of old Clinton engine ran with electric motor useing one. Still have but havent used in 40 years.
 
My Dad had one but I don't know what happened to it. It pumps fresh air, not air from the engine. It is VERY SLOW because of the little piston in the pump! Because the truck engine can suck air in from the outside, very little gas is sucked into the engine piston.
 
Any fuel mixture it could have pushed into a tire tube. Which back then most would have been. I would have worried more about the slight fuel deteriorating the rubber like oil will. Would take some time still would do it over time. Back then most tires were natural rubber not the synthetic stuff of today. They would have been more susceptible to that.
 
I have one out in the barn that Ford sold for the 8n. Never used it, but is in the original packaging. You should buy it just for a conversation piece. They don't come up very often. It won't be the last $150 you waste. I,m pretty sure that's what i paid for mine.
 
Yes the cylinder did suck air in through the adaptor. Dad used one on the Deere A. I still have it but the hose is so brittle I dont dare try to use it.
 


Kevin, go ahead and buy it! The farmer that I worked for as a kid, who had Fords had one of those that I was involved with a few times. There were a few JDs a few MFs but no IH in the area. So it must have been a Ford unit that he had.
 
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