Herman by Jim Unger for May 09, 2023

That would be useful if your car is parked too close to the ocean.

Interest in this is going to blow up

The gas station attendant used to be a U.S. congressman, disgraced and voted out because he did nothing to stop inflation.

Normal tires would not do that. He must have balloon tires.

Heard but didn’t quite see the end result of someone doing that a few years back…

Cadillac sedan driving slowly on the freeway, near several bridges… tire looked large and very strange and I suspect the driver and his passengers knew what was going on. I was several car lengths away the opposite way when I heard the explosion.

Those two are both airheads.

Now do the other three.

No, that’s too much.

When my bicycle pump gave out, I went to buy a new one. For $10 more I could get a small, handheld air compressor. I use it a couple of times a year.

Whenever I see a low pressure light on any of the cars, I do all 12 tires on my fleet.

Wasn’t this in a Donald Duck cartoon, the next step is the tires float away.

Station motto: service you can’t get anywhere else.

There’s a reason when airing up tires after a repair, the tires are inflated in a cage. I worked a death where a guy was inflating a repaired semi tractor tire and didn’t have the cage down. When the tire hit about 120 psi, the tire burst and a large chunk of the tire hit the guy in the head, killing him nearly instantly. The compressor regulator was set to 120 psi and it was reported he was almost done because of how the air compressor sounded.

Thar she blooooows

No matter how hard I try, I can’t get the pressure to read 100% filled.

The real Big Bang.

No longer at risk of sinking in soft sand….or water for that matter.

He seems to have made an airor in judgment.

That’s why they called them balloon tires…

Hm, looks like it must be a swing-axle, but the rest of it doesn’t look like an old VW bug.

I stopped using gas station compressors when they started charging a buck to use them. That’s literal highway robbery!

Reminds me of a gas station I knew where a lady would come in every night and make the attendant check the air in her tires. They were never low and the guys got tired of checking so one evening the man on duty aired all of them up to something over 60 pounds each. She quit coming back.

For some reason that brings to mine, would we get better mileage if we inflated the tires with helium?

They used to call them balloon tires. My dad would say that because the tires didn’t last very long that they were made out of penny balloons.