Thread: tire deflators

Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

I have the ez deflator its ok the tigerz looks like the same thing rebranded

The "ARB" deflator is a US patented design made by Burkey Manufacturing. It's sold as the Currie Ez-Deflator in the US. Unless the Tigerz11 is made in the US it's a knock off.

The patent for the Burkey deflator is here:
Patent US5665908 - Manual tire deflating and pressure indicating device - Google Patents

There is an interesting test on deflators at:
Tire Deflator Comparison: Everything you wanted to know about airing down and more!!

The Currie/ARB (6min 8sec) came out slightly faster than the Straun (6min 53sec) on their "whoa to go" 34psi - 10psi deflation test.


cheers
Paul

Originally Posted by OffTrack

The "ARB" deflator is a US patented design made by Burkey Manufacturing. It's sold as the Currie Ez-Deflator in the US. Unless the Tigerz11 is made in the US it's a knock off.

The patent for the Burkey deflator is here:
Patent US5665908 - Manual tire deflating and pressure indicating device - Google Patents

There is an interesting test on deflators at:
Tire Deflator Comparison: Everything you wanted to know about airing down and more!!

The Currie/ARB (6min 8sec) came out slightly faster than the Straun (6min 53sec) on their "whoa to go" 34psi - 10psi deflation test.


cheers
Paul

Thanks Paul and Eugene Kleeman (inventor). The test and results were very interesting. I fully agree the valve on the ARB and the KWIKY TYRE DEFLATOR are very similar. I wonder if a lawyer may visit. Doubt it is the Australian company (tigerz11) doing the rip off just importing them so I will not hold it against them myself.

I have an ARB deflator and find it great. It is accurate every time and I beat my mates on deflation with their Staun's each time. You can be very quick with an ARB deflator once you are used to it. Tyre deflators without a gauge scare me - in some ways you are putting your safety into something that you hope is reliable. Kind of like when you take your landy to a dealer ......

Another vote for the ease and accuracy for the stauns.
Taking the ferry over to Moreton island gives you a good opportunity to see a range of deflation methods in use. I would think over my trips a lot of people after seeing mine in use would have considered buying a set. They are the easiest.

Only problem I've had over the years was a while back. One wouldn't work, turns out there was a grain of sand stuck in the workings, really easy to fix, but a buggar to reset to 18.. In hindsight I should have marked it before opening.

My neighbour was impressed and found a set online for $20 delivered. Looked very similar but gees they're slow. Nowhere near as good as the genuine stauns.

Kenley

I have one of the arb ones.

if your using it for the first time i can see how it may take longer.

first you gotta tighten it on the vale stem then push in the middle slider and then unwind the valve while making sure you keep pressing the slider down as you undo the valve because the pressure pushes up the slider thing and then you gotta let the tyre down and then wind the vale back in and the undo the whole thing off the vale stem.

but you get quick at it after you have done it a few times and you can set it at any pressure you want

only bought the arb one because i know the guy at the arb shop pretty well and got a good price.

I like it it works for me.
at the end of the day they aren't that different