Nitrogen - $5 a tire

This is like, when I was still in highschool back in he early 60s..
(dating myself) Night shift at the gas station NO boss. We would
pick on certain unknowing customers if we were asked to check the
tires.. We would get oiut the guage,, and after a short pressure
check..

Quote. "Ohh Miss Bridgman - You need to have the air changed in your
tires, The air in them smells terrible" and we would have them smell
the air from the tire. We made 50 cents a tire.. Back then 50 cents
for a gallon of gas or 50cents for a pack of smokes. Sometimes we
could get 3 or 4 customers for this a night.

Ohh the games we played in the old days. History repeats itself.

cheers
Marv

 

you mean it DOESN'T?
I change my tire air once a month....

 

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Didn't you ever "Short stick" them when checking the oil? You'd slip
the dip stick between your index and second finger, insert it into the
tube until it contacted your fingers. You'd then show them the stick
that "indicated" the crankcase was a quart low. After they told you
that "You better add one," you put the metal pout spout into an empty
can, put it into the add oil hole, wait about a half a minute, remove
it, and charge them for a quart of oil.

 

'til one night some woman's husband came and beat the crap out of you
and got the $2.00 back.

Bill Putney
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Maybe that's why we have self-service in much of western Europe.

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....drop an antacid tablet into one of the battery cells? ...cut a fan belt
almost all the way through or poke a hole in a radiator hose while
"checking the oil"?

And people wonder why full-serve no longer exists (only self-serve and
we-serve).

 

I'm in favour of an idiocy tax.

 

Waste of money. It is pretty simple to check your tires for proper pressure.
It also means you will actually look at your tires and spot problems that could
get worse, like uneven wear.

 

when they put in air, it is 78% nitrogen already

 

However the volume inside a tire can and does expand as pressure increases, so
this needs to be accounted for in a strict interpretation of the Law relative to
tires.

 

That's why Government lotteries exist.

 

No - volume goes *down* as pressure increses. (I know - you meant to
say as *temperature* increases, and more correctly, with an essentially
constrained volume, as in a tire, pressure increases as temperature
increase.)

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Ha! Good one!

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He means the volume of the tire, not the volume of an ideal gas. As you
increase the pressure inside a tire, it will expand, albeit only
slightly, and its inside volume will increase.

Matt

 

Yeah - I realized that as a possibility after I posted. But this thread
is old and lost on my reader, so wasn't sure of the context of the point
being made.

OK - I just went back to the thread on Google. He was just making a
technical point that, although true, has no practical relationship to
the issue. There are always going to be 2nd, 3rd, etc. order effects
that can be ignored for the practical discussion - this is one of those.

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Heh... the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen but... I bet if you told the
average dope on the street "my god, terrorists just sprayed nitrogen
into the air!!!" they would all start choking...

 

What's even worse is dihyrogen-monoxide. If you inhale it, you die, and
our lakes and streams are loaded with it.

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Only if it is in the liquid or solid state. As a gas or aerosol, etc.,
it is benign.

Matt

 

About 5 years ago here in Kansas City one of the local morning radio
goofballs announced on April Fools Day that dihydrogen monoxide had been
detected in the water supply of several local municipalities. A lot of
people went into a tizzy, and some of the politicians and bureaucrats
fell for it. They were concerned that it may have been a result of
sabatoge by terrorists, so to be safe they called the state officials.
The prank didn't go on for too long, because a few people figured out
what dihydrogen monoxide was. The radio guy was sternly reprimanded,
but his only crime was in pointing out the stupidity of our public
servants.

 

Yep - and the city council of ALISO VIEJO, California almost banned
styrofoam drinking cups at city sporting events because of reading a
hoax web site on the subject saying that this awful chemical,
dihydrogen-monoxide, was used in the manufacture of styrofoam and
residue of the substance remained in the finished product:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4534017/
and http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1176710,00.html

They really aren't very bright - a quote from the end of the first
article: "The measure has been pulled from the agenda, although Norman
said the city may still eventually ban foam cups. 'If you get Styrofoam
into the water and it breaks apart, it's virtually impossible to clean
up,' Norman said."

A fun read: http://www.dhmo.org/

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