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Hold the valve open, squeeze, push the air up from the tail end to the valve, have another squeeze. Why, oh why, don't they just put a zip on the things so that you can achieve instant deflation?
Sussex Sharks
http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/
Just a shameless plug for my favourite team. [DrBob, Sep 17 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Because zippers aren't airtight. |
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I've been reading "Many Coloured Land" recently and that has decamole, a flexible format for portable inflatable things that has a powered unit for inflation and deflation. Taking a leaf from that book maybe all you need is a reverse hand or foot pump that allows you to extract the air. |
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(PeterSealey, Respect).
We also have such a mattress for camping, irritating family stopping the night etc. Ours however is not infalatble. |
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infalatble shhh you will wake highschoolkid |
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can you not connect it to the hoover / vacuum cleaner to suck out the air ? |
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Only if I take the hoover to the cricket match with me and use a very long extension lead. |
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That's part of the problem UB. I *am* one of the yobboes on the hill. One of the reasons I thought of a zipper (although PeterSealy's big airhole (!) would work just as well) was so that I could flush out the accumulated bodily fluids from poor old Sid's innards (Sid being the name of the shark). |
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Throwing a watermelon 30 feet in the air sounds like no mean feat. Either watermelons are smaller in Australia, or people are stronger. |
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I'm wondering why [DrBob] takes an inflatable shark to a cricket match. |
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Because I support the Sussex Sharks, of course. |
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there are portable machines to blow up your tyres or inflatables, perhaps they could have a suck mode? |
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you are right UB but this shark business is getting to me |
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It's a bad sign if you spend all your time worrying about sharks, po. Unless you go swimming a lot, of course. |
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no, its specifically Dr Bobs shark that I worry about |
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no sharks in London' s swimming baths not even in the Thames - they would probably be poisoned |
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