From: Famout@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:12:55 EST
Subject: greeeting and a question on pumps
To: balloon@balloonhq.com


Hello everybody.  This is the first time that I written.  Although, I have 
been reading the mail for a few weeks now.  Your questions and comments are 
wonderful and though them I have learn much.  Thank you.

Some friend, my family and myself from a group of clowns that make figure 
balloons.  We have been doing it for the past five years as a means of 
supporting a food pantry.  Most of the figures we make are more than one 
balloons.  On a busy day we might "blow up" (yes, we are the 'terrorist 
clowns') an assortment of 1500 balloons.  At present, we inflate them with 
hand pumps and by mouth.  We have been looking into electric pumps but 
wondered just how noisy are they.  We saw ad's in tmyers for different pumps 
and were considering the one the looks like it is based out of fishing 
box-any comments?   

         Y-Not