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Air pumps - recommendations?

pogofish said:
Mmm-hmm!

The gear-bug has bitten maybe?

Have a search for the various camping-porn threads on here - Lots of ideas for bits of kit you never knew you could do without! ;)

Personally, I'd suggest a self-inflating camping mat. Argos do a surprisingly decent one for @£15 whilst hill-gear shops do more high-tech/lightweight/smaller-packing ones for a good bit more. You don't need a pump then, only need a couple of puffs to get it to the right pressure.

As for pumps, if you are buying one, some of the automatic ones are good & very expensive whilst other cheap ones are shite. I've often seen them seriously discounted in the new year sales. The big handpump type are generally better IMO. Cycling shops also have them & Lidl tend to have them in with some regularlty for not a lot. :)
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I used to have it years ago mate - but it's returned :)

Yeh, I know about the camping porn threads, just being a complete lazy bastard today :D Guess I'd best check em out...there is the problem of it making me want more stuff though :(

Oh - and NO BLOODY HANDPUMPS! OR self inflating mats. I'm blinkered and only want what I want, nowt else
 
I have one of those whizzy ones but I've lost the adaptor thingy - they're horribly loud though.

I pumped my two cheap airbeds up this summer using just my lungs :cool:

Best to do it in stages and have a sitdown in between. ;)
 
gentlegreen said:
I have one of those whizzy ones but I've lost the adaptor thingy - they're horribly loud though.

I pumped my two cheap airbeds up this summer using just my lungs :cool:

Best to do it in stages and have a sitdown in between. ;)
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:eek:

I can't skin up AND blow up airbeds! Good god man!

Don't care about it being loud, just useful :)
 
sojourner said:
:eek:

I can't skin up AND blow up airbeds! Good god man!

Don't care about it being loud, just useful :)
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Skinning up is so much effort ... I hadn't planned to indulge on holiday so didn't take a pipe, but I did break into my emergency stash in the end - improvised a pipe with baco foil. :cool:

This thread has made me realise the schrader to presta adaptor kit I bought for my pushbike actually has an airbed and football adaptor too .. so I'll be able to try my tyre pump / emergency light later - if I can find it ...

That one's noisy too though, but lower pitch....
 
gentlegreen said:
I have a dinky one like that - it's crap .. way easier to just pump it up with yer lungs.
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True. It deflates too easily if you get a little, uh, enthusiastic on it.

But for camping i thought something like that would be ideal.
 
Madusa said:
True. It deflates too easily if you get a little, uh, enthusiastic on it.

But for camping i thought something like that would be ideal.
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I didn't mean the bed was crap - just the pump bit. Mine was from Halfords and I was glad to have it when the £4 Aldi one got so leaky it wouldn't last till midnight.

Apart from the annoyance of the pump bit when you put it away it's probably a decent airbed - except for being much too small and ridged - was tolerable for one night with a carrymat on top.

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...... of course the key problem with the built-in pump ones is you have to be able to stand up to do it ;)

(Not a problem for me though as I've bought a tent you could hold an intimate rave in ;) )

.
 
gentlegreen said:
I didn't mean the bed was crap - just the pump bit. Mine was from Halfords and I was glad to have it when the £4 Aldi one got so leaky it wouldn't last till midnight.

Apart from the annoyance of the pump bit when you put it away it's probably a decent airbed - except for being much too small and ridged - was tolerable for one night with a carrymat on top.
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Well, a few years ago, I had an airbed as my proper bed for about 6 months. That was fun. :rolleyes: :D
 
Madusa said:
Well, a few years ago, I had an airbed as my proper bed for about 6 months. That was fun. :rolleyes: :D
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Yours looks more like my Aldi one - I could imagine sleeping on one of those :)
 
gentlegreen said:
Yours looks more like my Aldi one - I could imagine sleeping on one of those :)
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Yeah well, at the time I was paying £30 a week rent, so I also got a good night's sleep on it. :D
 
sojourner said:
:confused: What's one of them? Never heard of it...you're making it up
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Dont! My last airbed before the camping mat had one of those. You need to apply a CPR-like method to the pumping & the amount of air it shifts is tiny.

Gave my neighbours plenty of opportunities for mirth at the strained huffing & farting sounds coming out of the tent! :D
 
sojourner said:
Oh - and NO BLOODY HANDPUMPS! OR self inflating mats. I'm blinkered and only want what I want, nowt else
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OK, if you are buying one of those, make sure it goes low enough to inflate an airbed - 4-6psi range IIRC. Many are intended to inflate car tyres & won't go that low. A friend made this mistake once & his wife was not best pleased when the airbed went bang!

My pumpy-airbed was very similar to the one in the link.
 
And don't come running to us when you're doing velcro in a saggy airbed cos yer too bloody lazy to use a handpump :rolleyes:
 
madzone said:
And don't come running to us when you're doing velcro in a saggy airbed cos yer too bloody lazy to use a handpump :rolleyes:
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:eek:

HA-HA! :D

Yes, airbeds with the imbedded pump are terrible for that.
 
pogofish said:
Dont! My last airbed before the camping mat had one of those. You need to apply a CPR-like method to the pumping & the amount of air it shifts is tiny.

Gave my neighbours plenty of opportunities for mirth at the strained huffing & farting sounds coming out of the tent! :D
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Hehe :D

Nah, i'm not getting one of them, they sound like way too much hard work :eek:
 
pogofish said:
OK, if you are buying one of those, make sure it goes low enough to inflate an airbed - 4-6psi range IIRC. Many are intended to inflate car tyres & won't go that low. A friend made this mistake once & his wife was not best pleased when the airbed went bang!

My pumpy-airbed was very similar to the one in the link.
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Ta mate - will do
 
sojourner said:
So, how's the Sade going? :D
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:o i havent read those chapters you pointed out yet.

I have one more book to finish and then I shall order Story of O and Justine. I shall update you when I have them in my sweaty mitts. :D
 
Madusa said:
:o i havent read those chapters you pointed out yet.

I have one more book to finish and then I shall order Story of O and Justine. I shall update you when I have them in my sweaty mitts. :D
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Well don't start on them (e2a I mean those particular chapters)

Read the whole thing, from the beginning. It is a story, after all, and you'll get more out of it that way :)

Look forward to the update :D
 
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