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Using a variety of media, your child will be free to express their in a beautiful space while socializing and engaging in cooperative play Birds are flying south, winds are coming from the north, and mushrooms are everywhere, so let's look up, down, and all around to see what we can find! As our colder weather arrives and settles in, Miss Lisa wants you to join her for some family friendly nature walks.
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We stay in touch via e-mail on an almost daily basis; one recent e-mail was a link to a video on Wimp. This, thought I, was something worth reviewing. It also led me to the inventor of Air Swimmers, Blake English.
Blake is an RCGroups patron who already had a discussion thread underway, found here. He got back to me almost immediately with the promise of providing a review sample. I had to ask for the shark. Assembly is similar between the two versions and operation is identical. It's also really quick. We'll have this shark swimming across the living room in no time, so cue the creepy, ominous music and let's get busy! The young woman at the Vons supermarket in Yucca Valley, California was utterly amused by the notion of a flying shark with a photo-realistic mouth and she had the balloon inflated tight with five bucks' worth of helium in no time.
Such a large balloon required her to give me a large weight at the end of a ribbon molded in the shape of a happy face, no less to prevent a flyaway; this weight proved to be a real keeper to assist in mooring the finished, um, fish.
It also proved to be invaluable in keeping the balloon moored during most of the assembly process, especially when I didn't have an assistant handy. I should point out that after a couple of days, the balloon started to lose helium.
Rather than haul the entire assembled blimp back to the supermarket, I picked up a Balloon Time party balloon kit from the Walmart Supercenter in Palm Springs, California one evening after work. A very brief burst from the cylinder reinflated the balloon, so unless it's totally deflated, one of these disposable tanks ought to last quite a long time. As of this writing, I must have done a good job of resealing the valve since there's been no noticeable loss of helium over the last several days.
The balloon is made of nylon, not mylar like a toy balloon. This may have something to do with it. Speaking of helium, please don't breathe the stuff. Yes, it makes you sound like a Munchkin and yes, I've done it countless times during my lifetime, but that light-headed feeling you get is the result of your brain being starved of oxygen.
An oxygen-starved brain is a bad thing. Again, please don't huff the helium. Fins The manual, though well-written, suffered a bit from some drawings which didn't make sense to me at first. Everything later made sense once I viewed the amusing and informative online assembly video at Airswimmers.
A narrator in a wet suit I'll assume it's inventor Blake English assembles an Air Swimmers shark from start to finish. The manual itself encourages 4. I'd been in touch with Blake after the first draft of this review was completed.
He informed me that a revamped instruction manual was in the works, one with improved drawings and steps that will make it easier for a single person to assemble the Air Swimmer. The dorsal fin and pectoral fins attach to marked areas of the balloon with the aid of double- sided tape patches and transparent tape patches used to reinforce the attachment atop the part.
A second dorsal fin is provided with the clownfish version and it was a good thing that the sheet of double- sided tape had that fourth pad. I never would have thought it possible to use tems like "dorsal fin," "pectoral fin," "shark" and "clownfish" in the context of an RCGroups review. This may well be an historic internet moment. Though the pads are diecut, they're somewhat difficult to remove from the sheet and I wound up sticking one of the pads to itself. Once in place, they do a great job of holding the fins to the balloon.
A notched, tooth-shaped clear reinforcement human, not shark fits atop the base of each fin and helps to secure them from the top. These too are difficult to remove and rather thin, so they should be handled carefully to prevent them from sticking to themselves.
During the course of our e-mail correspondence, Blake told me that the Air Swimmers are undergoing continuous improvement. The company has since switched to a stronger, thicker clear tape similar to postal-grade packing tape.
These tapes are also easier to remove from the backing and strong enough to be peeled apart if folded against themselves. They've even changed the shape of some of the tapes to aid installation. Some hobby shops have reported that using CA to glue the hooks to the balloon works well, but that would of course be a permanent installation. That's what I call customer service and I applaud Blake and his crew for not simply sitting on their laurels.
With the fins in place, the balloon stopped looking like some bizarre football-shaped party favor with a shark's face to something resembling a three-dimensional model shark. Four hooks used to secure the drive assembly to the rear of the balloon are installed in the same manner as the fins with the openings of the hooks facing toward the nose of the 5.
Call your assistant into the room to help hold the balloon; it has a tremendous amount of lift, there's no place to grab onto the balloon and you'll need both hands to attach the hooks as well as the hold-down tapes.
I later discovered that trying to center the hooks over the balloon's center seam resulted in hooks which occasionally pulled off as the balloon lost helium. Best thing here is to attach the hooks slightly off center so that they fully stick to the skin. Those new tapes I mentioned earlier should eliminate the problem on newer models. Tail On now to the heart of the Air Swimmer.
The tail is a wonderfully engineered assembly which needs only to have the capped rods at the end of the tail fin attached as shown in the manual and retained with the supplied clips.
Don't insert the straw more than an inch into the valve or the balloon may begin to deflate. Remember that blowing air into the balloon will dilute the helium already inside. Eventually all the helium in the balloon will need to be replaced by completely deflating and inflating it again. It is possible that there is not enough helium in the balloon. In this case, add a little more helium until it flies or try lowering your elevation. Some retail stores, such as www. You can use anything to add to the putty weight.
Try using small coins, paper clips, etc. Read More. The William Mark Corporation does not sell to the public. Menu: Buy Now! Buy Now! Home Products Feisty Pets. Meet the Feisty Pets! Where to Buy. Air Swimmers. Flitter Fairies. Book Excerpt. More Wonders. What is required in order to get my Air Swimmer TM up and running? What are Air Swimmers TM made from?
Are the balloons re-usable? Do you sell replacement parts? How can I get replacement rubber bands? Will any rubber bands work? There is nothing magic about our rubber bands, so any typical rubber band will work just fine.
I need to replace the clear tape, will any clear tape work? Yes, there is nothing special about the tape. Any clear tape will work as a replacement. I found a knock-off Air SwimmerTM. What should I do? Do Air Swimmers TM come in a smaller size? Do you plan to make Air Swimmers TM other than the shark and clownfish?
What is the range of the controller and what conditions affect it? How many Air SwimmersTM can be flown together at the same time? Where do I get helium? Are there different types of helium?
Isn't there a helium shortage? How long will my Air SwimmerTM stay inflated? How high can Air SwimmersTM fly? My city is at a high elevation. Will Air SwimmersTM work here?
Can I use it outside?
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