On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:33:49PM -0400, spetri wrote:
> It's a west marine pump I bought in the clearance section. It doesn't pump
> the inflatable up to working pressure, but gets most of the way there.
Ah. That's my experience with the WM pumps as well. I'm just not a fan
of things that don't work 100%, unless they're _supposed_ to be cheap
and disposable.
> It
> fills the chambers so I only need about 6-7 pumps with the hand pump for the
> tubes. The air-deck takes about 15-20 to get it to pressure.
>
> I'm done in less than 15 minutes, when before it used to take more than an
> hour with much sweating.
[laugh] Well, yes, that _is_ a benefit. On the other hand, I'm in the
process of losing some serious weight (27 lbs so far, woohoo!), so the
exercise does me no harm. As I recall, it's about 200 pumps for the bow
section and about 150 each for the sides... whew, I'm sweating just
thinking about that. But I've done it a few times over the years, and it
hasn't killed me yet.
> I have to use a piece of water tubing and hose clamps to make the WM pump
> work on a Mercury, but it only cost me $17.00 to buy it.
Wow, definitely a good price. Last I looked at it, they wanted $150. At
$17, that would fit my definition of "cheap and disposable" and be well
worth the money.
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