Weird floor pump problem

[ace]

I work at a technology consulting firm, and everyone around here knows that if they want to casually test hardware or software, just hand it over to me, 'cause I break everything, pretty much immediately. It is almost a gift. Unfortunately, I can't fix anything, which would be handy.

But the pump thing is pissing me off, because it's a good Joe Blow pump, I bought my first one in July, it broke immediately (see??) and I returned it and got a replacement. So I've only had this for 9 months at most.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I was having trouble getting my (new) floor pump to work on both my tires. We were on the verge of trying to return it as defective, when I changed tire sizes on my bike and put in new tubes- this time not the cheap brand tubes i had in before. Voila, the pump has had no problem since then. We figured the problem actually lay in the bargain tubes valves, not the pump.

[ace]

So I tried what my neighbor suggested, letting a little air out, then spitting into the part of the pump that you stick onto the valve....and it worked! He said sometimes that will create the seal you need to make it work. Cool-o-rama!