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Inflate your dragon at the gas station

Inflate your dragon at the gas station
Are you turning blue when you fill up your floats? Well this instructable will show you how to make a tire valve into a pool float inflater so you can fill them conveniently at any gas station or with any tire chuck.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
You need the following materials
1 3/8 hose barb. 3/8 is actually too large to push the safety valve open meaning it will take a bit longer to fill things, but you won't have to hold it.
1 3/8 hose clamp
1 tire valve

1 piece of tubing mine was unused gas line I had lying around
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11 comments
Jul 15, 2010. 10:55 AMomegadavid says:
aww is my favorite dragon i use it to sleep with it lol
Jul 23, 2008. 5:53 PMYellow84 says:
um, this is helpful and all but what happens if i have a turtle?
Jul 26, 2008. 7:56 AMdungeon001 says:
I'd be more interested in knowing what happens if the turtle is not inflatable :)
Jan 28, 2009. 5:49 PMHellchild says:
I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant...
Jul 23, 2008. 6:37 PMWeissensteinburg says:
Agreed, is this universal for all inflatable animals?
Jul 24, 2008. 11:16 AMWeissensteinburg says:
Yeah, I was just kidding =]

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