tools overpriced or worth it?

For as much as I have used it the truck stop glad hand air line has been just fine for me. You really only need it when you are in BFE without an air line.

 

the difference may be in quality, starting out the truckstop brand is fine, its not like you are running a tire shop with it.

 

I did not see the basic glad-hand inflator w/ 50' hose on the web page that you need. Don't need a "regulator" and the prices did seem awfully high. A truck stop or amazon

This is all you need insofar as tire inflation tools, besides a good gauge with a straight forward and angled reverse chuck (don't get a gauge that is angled going forward)

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how much u paid lol everything is OVERpriced in the TRUCKING business..

 

You could make your own. I've used mine a couple times. It is nice to have but I generally check my pressure while fueling and add any there if necessary.

 

Milton has been making that stuff for many years and are considered good quality.

 

Milton's a quality brand, but, as said before, you're not running a tire shop. If it benefits you to buy high end items, by all means. But I don't really it would here.
By the way, those ones with the built-in gauge which displays when you let off the lever.... you don't want those. Go with a separate chuck and gauge.
What I did... I got 50 feet of air line, I bought air couplers... there's usually a fitting or a means to screw on a fitting on the wet tank... don't remember where I got the air line from, but I remember it was a place which would cut the line to length.. the connectors/couplers, I bought at Harbor Freight. And, if I ever wanted to hook it to the trailer emergency air via glad hand (which I didn't), then all I really had to go was get a glad hand, thread a 1/4" to 1/2" pipe adapter into it, put a female end on the 1/4" side, and I could use it all the same. Plus, having a 1/4" quick connect on the other end of the hose allowed me to use attachments other than just an air chuck... I use it for some air tools, as well.

 

Most of the truck stop hoses are a plastic type. In Chicago winters the hose was all soft when I pulled it out of the cab, after driving an hour to the rail yard to hook to a trailer with a flat.

But in the time it took to fill the trailer tire the hose turned almost rock hard! It felt like it was going to crack when I coiled it back up to get it in the storage area.

Get a good rubber hose, a gladhand connector and a straight/reverse angled chuck. Just use your regular tire gauge.

Harbor freight:
Rubber hose $25.99

Air tool connect kit $7.49 (cheap in price and quality)

Or

Iowa 80
50' hose, glad hand and air chuck all for $39.99 before shipping

Mikeeee

 

All tools are a waste of money, until you need them.