Nitrogen for the Tow Vehicle Tires ...(?)

[chip]

Want a bet who is backing this "Nitrogen in the tires" scheme?

Gee, Suzy.

Not George Bush again.  I hope.

[tlhdoc]

Gee, Suzy.
 
Not George Bush again. I hope.

LOL...

[fritz_monroe]

While I do think there is probably some benefit to using nitrogen tires, I doubt there is enough of a difference to make the extra cost worth it.

What I find funny is this pops up on pretty much every board related to anything with tires every so often.

[dthurk]

Let's see...ambient air is 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen.  Could that be close enough to N2O?  That really starts making this thread, lol, funny.  Sorry, lol, I can't, lol, help my self.  HaHaHaHa  lol HaHa lol  LOL  HAHA  ROFL...  This is the happiest thread I've seen in a long time!


Dihydrogen monoxide.  AB, that was pretty good!

[wavery]

Let's see...ambient air is 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen.  Could that be close enough to N2O?  That really starts making this thread, lol, funny.  Sorry, lol, I can't, lol, help my self.  HaHaHaHa  lol HaHa lol  LOL  HAHA  ROFL...  This is the happiest thread I've seen in a long time!


Dihydrogen monoxide.  AB, that was pretty good!

Actually the correct terminology is:

SNAKE OIL!!!
 :J

[AustinBoston]

Dihydrogen monoxide.  AB, that was pretty good!

Well, I'm glad somebody got the joke!  :p

Austin

[dthurk]

Well, I'm glad somebody got the joke!  :p
 
 Austin

Wonder how many get mine?

[Old Goat]

Gee, Suzy.

Not George Bush again.  I hope.

Nope, It's Al Gore.......

[AustinBoston]

Wonder how many get mine?

Well, he-he, ho, um, hee-hee-he, om, I'm getting sleepy, he-hee...

Austin

[chasd60]

Ok I didn't research this at all. I was under the impression that nitrogen expands and contracts less due to temperature changes and this would keep the pressure more consistent on 100 days and -20 mornings.

Is this not the point of using nitrogen?
 
I figure helium would work better and my truck would be lighter and that would give me better mileage.

[mike4947]

TIme to do the research. N2 & O2 as well as CO2 all respond to Boyle's law as far as expansion/pressure are concerned.

 
The reasons Nascar uses DRY nitrogen are Dry nitrogen does not contain water vapor so the amount of expansion Due to the heating of the tires is constant. Not less, or more, constant. Next is since they have to use bottle gas in the pits they might as well use something that will reduce the variables on the car. When you are talking 1/2 pound increments in static tire pressure any moisture in the form of water vapor would add a non controlled variable. With millions at stake every weekend they race they can afford to use Dry N2 to reduce a chance of something going wrong.
So unless you intend to land your RV at several hundred miles an hour, feel the need to correct your tire pressures to less than 1 PSI differnece at speed; or turn left for several hours with a big pot of money at stake there's not much reason to pay to have something pumped into your tires that basically won't do anything but make you think your getting something.

[wavery]

SNAKE OIL!!!
 :J

[dthurk]

SNAKE OIL!!!
  :J

Some people don't know how to have fun.  :mad:

C'mon Wavery...AB's all wet and I'm a gas.  :-()

Join the party!!!!

(Sorry to be hijacking the thread, just can't resist.)
Actually, I agree with mike4947, there's probably so little for us to gain it wouldn't be worth the money and extra effort to gas up our tires.

[tlhdoc]

to gas up our tires.

You put GASOLINE in your tires? :eyecrazy:

[chasd60]

We use dry nitrogen as a purge gas when performing high temperature bake storage on some of the semiconductors we make. The dry nitrogen has no oxygen or moisture and this prevents oxidization from occurring. Oxidation isn't the failure mechanism we are looking for with this stress so it does not matter.
 
I guess the absence of moisture and oxygen should have some benefits to the rim and possibly the rubber, not sure about the rubber though.