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It'll depend on the tyre and rim combo, the inflater will leave you with two free hands to move the wheel around and maybe help things along by squeezing certain bits, but sometimes they need a decent amount of airflow that you might not be able to reach to get it started. Worth a try if you can leave it a while if you need to get more things, but if you want to be more certain in advance then you'll want some way of blasting a decent shot of air at once.
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Are you still in Penge? I've a Airshot you're welcome to borrow in Beckenham.
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I've got Vittoria Corsas I'm planning on using installed with tubes currently
If you have tubeless tape already remove just one side to get the tube out.
And please do lube the beads with a bit of water, those tires are bastards to seat
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I'm promising myself that I'm finally going to get round to setting my tyres up tubeless in the next couple of weeks. It'll be my first time dabbling. I've got a bog standard Joe Blow track pump and access to a Makita air compressor at work (pictured below). The air compressor takes about as long as a pump to inflate a tyre so it's not the quick blast of air that I reckon is needed to seat tubeless tyres. Are either likely to be up to the task or shall I save myself a headache and get something specifically designed for the task? I've got Vittoria Corsas I'm planning on using installed with tubes currently and they were an absolute bastard to get seated so I reckon the whole thing is going to be a colossal pain in the arse.
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