Bushwalk Australia

Has anyone tired microburst to blow up air matresses. I am using the garbage bag with a corner cut off and rubber band but it is a fiddle. I do not want to use breath due to the water vapor that gets into the air matress.
65 gms including batteries.

http://www.camp-tek.com/index.html

My NeoAir All Season came with an "air pump" bag type arrangement, but it's lots of fluffing around for no real time gain.

Plus the instructions say that NeoAirs can be inflated by mouth with no condensation damage, as they don't contain foam or down insulation.

It only takes 20 or so deep breaths to fill. Some people complain about feeling lightheaded, but I'm normally like that already by the time I stumble into camp after walking all day.

under10kg wrote:

Has anyone tired microburst to blow up air matresses. I am using the garbage bag with a corner cut off and rubber band but it is a fiddle. I do not want to use breath due to the water vapor that gets into the air matress.
65 gms including batteries.

http://www.camp-tek.com/index.html

If you're truly worried about moisture, then this is the easiest solution ive used. I can just leave it to inflate the mattress while i go about camp doing other things.
However, if found i dont really care about moisture into my neoairs anymore and just blow naturally. I used to get slightly light headed blowing up those neoairs but somehow I've grown used to it and dont get that sensation anymore. Theres also the batteries and weight consideration, which i try to minimise nowadays. I find that its not worth its weight when its only got 1 non-essential use.

The instaflator seems pretty popular. I'm looking at getting one for down mat winter use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tndh3_SV1mk