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How To Inflate Your Dented Ping Pong

video How To Inflate Your Dented Ping Pong

Do you have dented Ping Pong ball?

With easy step video, I'll show you how you can inflate your dented Ping Pong.

Get a glass of cup and add hot water, place the Ping Pong ball into the hot water and sink the Ping Pong ball under the hot water for few seconds. It will inflate by itself. The air inside the Ping Pong expand under hot water and it inflated.

Please watch the video for more info.

46 comments

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Apr 19, 2012. 6:14 AM

freeza36 says:

Ah! The cursed dinged up ping pong ball

Aug 8, 2011. 11:25 PMabbage28 says:

Awesome.

Jan 4, 2008. 10:15 PMguyfrom7up says:

or you could just get good 3 star pingpong balls that will improve your game play and they won't get squished, they'd sooner crack than squish.

Jan 5, 2008. 8:53 PMSilentTecro says:

Not in my experience. I don't know, maybe I use different 3-star tennis balls. They are more durable, though.

Apr 23, 2009. 4:39 PMtanmanknex says:

don't you mean ping pong balls? ;D

Jul 17, 2011. 12:41 AMvampist says:

Table "tennis" ;)

Jun 9, 2011. 8:39 AMhammer9876 says:

We have several ping pong balls around the house for my cats to play with. I'm going hunting for ping pong balls to fix!

Nov 8, 2010. 10:34 AMBalintRules says:

thát ís só cQQl

Nov 7, 2010. 6:34 AMinstruct39 says:

very well done! i inflated mine so much that instead of having a dent in it, it now has a little bump on it. :P

Jul 21, 2010. 2:28 PMspenfisher12 says:

kool

Jun 26, 2009. 10:07 AMMegaMaker says:

By "hot water" do you mean boiling? How hot? (now I'm gonna go find/make a ping pong table)

Nov 30, 2009. 4:34 PMSenior Waffleman says:

try 1 minute in the microwave

Apr 4, 2010. 8:00 PMgeodez says:

set it on fire.

Apr 4, 2010. 9:53 PMSenior Waffleman says:

lol?

Apr 5, 2010. 9:38 AMgeodez says:

yes.

Apr 4, 2010. 11:54 AMknektek says:

soak it in hot water for 10 secs and immediatly drench it in cold water.

Feb 8, 2008. 5:10 AMmaker12 says:

look at the zots! ..................................................................................................................................................................................

Jun 30, 2009. 11:06 AMorangewolf22 says:

ooooooooooooooooooooooo

Jul 5, 2009. 7:35 PMiLikeCoolStuf says:

0_o

Jul 6, 2009. 1:19 PMorangewolf22 says:

= ="

Jul 21, 2009. 4:26 PMiLikeCoolStuf says:

Jun 1, 2009. 9:20 AMK-Dawg says:

great trick

May 14, 2009. 10:00 AMbagikun says:

I am impressed! And my 12 y.o. boy also is. He can't wait until tomorrow to show it to the colleagues on the school! Wonderful trick you have.

Oct 12, 2008. 8:20 AMI3uckwheat says:

great but how did u come up with it?

Dec 4, 2008. 1:30 PMsaturnv7890 says:

basic laws, as temperature rises, so does pressure

Dec 5, 2008. 2:05 PMI3uckwheat says:

o neat i didnt know that

Sep 10, 2008. 11:23 AMbaneat says:

good to do on a large scale.

Aug 19, 2008. 7:26 PMloki95531 says:

I never thought this would be helpful but my cat will not play with a less than round ping pong ball. Yes! the microwave worked. cool

Jul 16, 2008. 5:19 PMpanzer says:

holy crap!!!!!!!! just as i read this instructable, my sis complained that she broke the last ping pong ball!!!!!!! now i don't have to buy new ones!!!!!!!! (yet....)

Jul 14, 2008. 10:53 PMdarkmuskrat says:

this is the most useful; non-useful info i have ever seen :P (im in the process of denting a ball right now :P)