From joker  Tue Dec 22 14:09:28 1992
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From: joker@mother (Larry Moss)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:09:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: toddc@ihlpm.att.com
       "Re: Reindeer Balloon" (Dec 22, 11:47am)
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To: balloon@mother.ent.rochester.edu
Subject: Trees and other holiday gooddies

On Dec 22, 11:47am toddc@ihlpm.att.com writes:
> 	Now, got any ideas on how to make a sleigh?  

I've been thinking about this one, but I haven't come up with anything
yet.  If anyone has any ideas, please post 'em.

> 	I've thought about making a Christmas tree by using 4 green 260's, 
> tieing them to gether at one end, and making bends in them to get the 
> "usual" shape of a Christmas tree. 
> 				/\
> 			       /  \
> 			      /    \
> 			      --||--

I'm not sure what you meant by bends to get the usual shape, but here's
what comes to mind.  (I haven't tried this either, so I have no idea how
it'll work.)  Tie the 4 balloons together at the nozzle end and leave a
couple inches free at the nipple end.  To get the bends at the lower
corners of the balloon, use ear twists, marked by X's.  Now you'll have 4
smaller bubbles that you can twist together in the center of the tree to
form a trunk.  What will really happen is that the 4 ends will spread
apart, but you may be able to use that to get the tree to stand.  Is that
what you meant?

 				/\
 			       /  \
 			      /    \
 			     X--/\--X
                               /  \


Dreydels - 

I managed to make a 4 balloon dreydel.  I was hoping for somethign
smaller, but I think it's kinda neat.  take 2 soft, but fully inflated
260's.  Twist them together in the middle.  Twist off about 10 inches
from each of the 4 loose ends and connect the very ends of those bubbles
to the twist in the next bubble over.

(Here are two ends.  there are 4 in reality)

       \      /
        \    /
         \  /
          \/


        _____ ____
        \    /
         \  /
          \/


Inflate another balloon.  This just has to be long enough to make it
around the outside of the dreydel.  Again, 10 inch bubbles.

         ______
        |      |
        |      |
         ______
         \    /
           \/


DO a big pop twist with the last balloon.  You basically need to form a
T where the 2 bubbles forming the top of it will be able to extend the
distance between two opposite corners inside the dreydel (for you
geometry buffs out there, that's about 7 inches each).  Now attach that
inside the dreydel.

            |
            |
         ___|__
        |   |  |
        |   |  |
         ___|__
         \    /
           \/


Larry