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Quote: Originally posted by beefysmum on 01/4/2008

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I have seen this and it is certainly cheap, but is it any good? I have always used airbeds before, but am thinking of changing to self inflaters,  thinking of less time spent blowing the airbeds up and naff pumps that let you down when you need them.

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I got a fab battery pump from Argos for a tenner. I never thought it'd be any good, but got it in desperation when my back was really bad and I couildn't use either of the two. It works a treat! I plug it in, switch it on and by the time the kettle's boiled, the bed's pumped up and the tent's virtually done too.

We give it a couple of goes with a hand pump just to get it really firm. 

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I pinched this from http://www.alpkit.com/airic/ sadexpunk.

Nice to meet another sadexpunk though I was a Buzzcocks man. You?

That makes me feel a bit better. I have left both my self inflating mats folded in half with the valves open in the roof of the bongo ready to go away next week.  I wasn't sure if it was ok to leave them in half like that but hopefuly its fine. They were inflated but the pressure of the roof will have deflated them quite a bit.