Select to expand quotecauncy said..
Totally gay, the day I tart using one of these is the day is question my sexuality, man up you ******s and pump
Mick, don't cast me out! I've given up that perversion now.
Select to expand quotecauncy said..I tart
You Freudian slip?
I'm happy to pump up my Cabrinhas, but anything with the old style tiny valves... FFS they suck!
Select to expand quotewave6ft said..
We now use my dual cylinder 4wd tyre pump and take a.small.battery and.it.pumps.3 kites up.pretty quick
I've got a large air compressor on my 4x4 - can anyone tell me where I can get an adaptor for a kite valve, (i.e. from standard threaded male-tyre valve with lever to convert to the wide mouth female valve on the kite)?
I've tried various searches on google etc - but ( as you van probably guess from this post - I really don't know what I'm talking about), so my results have been useless.
Cmon fellas, its meant to be an extreme sport and blowing your kite up with one of these imo doesn't do it justice, I bet you guys are the type that play golf driving a buggy, or fish with one of those electric fishing reels, or play bowls with one of them ramps for your bowls so you don't have to bend, don't get old before your time
Select to expand quotecauncy said...
Cmon fellas, its meant to be an extreme sport and blowing your kite up with one of these imo doesn't do it justice, I bet you guys are the type that play golf driving a buggy, or fish with one of those electric fishing reels, or play bowls with one of them ramps for your bowls so you don't have to bend, don't get old before your time
Why rub two sticks together when you can use a lighter 
Select to expand quoteLostinSpace said..cauncy said...
Cmon fellas, its meant to be an extreme sport and blowing your kite up with one of these imo doesn't do it justice, I bet you guys are the type that play golf driving a buggy, or fish with one of those electric fishing reels, or play bowls with one of them ramps for your bowls so you don't have to bend, don't get old before your time
Why rub two sticks together when you can use a lighter
This.
Nice one cauncy - I tend to agree ! I'm getting soft reading all this battery powered stuff - I'm going to harden the fu$K up and just get on with my double action pump !!
And given the forecast for VIC over the next few days a bit of a warm up before the big event cant be all bad - but sometimes I do wonder about being a woose and wishing the 'pump' to inflate the kite while I'm having an warm soup!! - water temp here in Vic is now around 15oC and forecast air temp is a balmy 15oC...
After reading through this thread, I decided to head over to Bunnings and pick up the new Ryobi air compressor just to see what it can do. I already had the battery/charging station, so for $70 it wasn't that much of a risk. On top of that, if I didn't find it useful I was planning just to return it regardless.
I tested it out in the garage pumping up a 13 meter kite. Unfortunately it's not a one-pump, so I only tested it on the leading edge. It took just under 60 seconds to pump up the bladder until it had a tiny bit of stiffness. Here is the catch however... The high pressure pump is located on one side of the unit, and the high volume is on the other (each have their own hose). After the bladder had a bit of pressure, I switched it over to the high pressure side and set the PSI. After about 3 minutes, the kite was fully pumped up and ready to go.
The downside - of using this pump system is that you have to switch it over to the high pressure hose. Also, the high volume hose is VERY flimsy. I can't see it lasting more than a couple of trips to the beach and it appears to be it's own proprietary size/fitting on the non-kite attachment side. It still would be pretty easy to modify the hose and attach a new more robust fitting.
The upside - Although I didn't have a one-pump system to try this on, I would guess it would take no more than 6-7 minutes to fully inflate a 13 meter kite (not taking into account the time it takes to switch from the high volume to high pressure hose. Also, for what this system is, it's much lighter than I would have expected. Much of it has to do with the powerful compact Lipo battery.
At the moment, I'm undecided about keeping the unit. I'll give it a few days and maybe one more test before making a decision.
J
I've installed the manual changeover switch in my pump and it works great. So it's back to the dark side for me
Select to expand quotecauncy said..
Totally gay, the day I tart
That's where i stopped reading
Select to expand quotecauncy said..
What's this country coming too
Gay tarts, it would appear... 
