How To Inflate an Air Mattress

Phil Tarman

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I've never had a self-inflating mattress that actually inflates, so I think that's an amazing and useful new learning. Thanks, Chris!
 

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Great idea! It's mainly using atmospheric pressure and the breaths are only required to open up the trash bag. :)
 

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I think the only way to truly appreciate this, is to have spent countless times huffing and puffing to blow up an air mattress when you were younger...or maybe last summer.

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I got a chuckle looking at the big hulky guy and that dinky air mattress.... 10-15 years ago I went to this air bed. I have a small ni-cad powered electric pump much smaller than the hairdrier this guy is using.
You fill it 3/4 full and after one night sleeping on it I will never to back to an air "mattress" again. But then I camp out 30 days a year....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZw3BwMBDlk
 

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Eons ago, they sold an air hose attachment that used one of the cylinders of a multi-cyl engine as an air pump to inflate things such as air mattresses. The spark plug from the cylinder was removed and replaced with an air hose fitting & hose connecting it to the air mattress, rubber boat, etc., then the engine was started. I never saw one in person and only saw the ads. :)
 

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Eons ago, they sold an air hose attachment that used one of the cylinders of a multi-cyl engine as an air pump to inflate things such as air mattresses. The spark plug from the cylinder was removed and replaced with an air hose fitting & hose connecting it to the air mattress, rubber boat, etc., then the engine was started. I never saw one in person and only saw the ads. :)
I'd love to see the Error Codes a new vehicle would generate if someone used an engine air pump...:eek1: And if you use it on an older vehicle to inflate an air mattress don't smoke in bed. The air / fuel mixture in your air mattress could be worse than a can of baked beans...:rolleyes1: I know the engine isn't running but you still draw air thru the carb...
 
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