I made a tool to help inflate tubeless tires without a compressor, and it's pretty sweet. A simple (pictureless, because I'm lazy) DIY follows:
Materials required:
pipe bomb tool up to 90psi brings a strong wheel, normal width tire to about 25psi straight off.
Materials required:
- An old shitty pump (I had a broken one kicking around)
- 2' of 3" PVC pipe
- 2 end caps for said PVC pipe
- PVC cement
- An old tube
- A ball valve (I got one from Home Despot)
- Some fittings
- Open a beer
- Take your old tube, and cut the valve out. Leave a flange of tube around the base of the valve
- Drill a valve sized hole in one of the PVC end caps
- Stick the valve through the hole in the cap, and glue the tube flange to the inside of the cap. Secure the valve with one of those little knurled nuts that comes on the valve.
- Cut the hose and valve off your pump
- Throw the rest of the pump away
- Get another beer, yours is empty by now
- Cut a section off the hose from the pump
- Connect the valve end of the pump hose to the ball valve, then connect the other end of the ball valve to your second pipe cap using the chunk of hose you cut out in step 8, and your fittings
- Glue the pipe caps onto the pipe
- Wait a while