electric inflatable pump -£8 or £80

[ffiill]

I took the advice of an earlier thread and bought an £8 pump for my Seago 260.
For those who doubt this choice it took under four minutes to inflate it to a reasonable level plus ten strokes each side with my double acting stirrup pump.
Worth every penny and for me not worth investing in the high pressure £80 plus variety.

 

[NickRobinson]

I took the advice of an earlier thread and bought an £8 pump for my Seago 260.
For those who doubt this choice it took under four minutes to inflate it to a reasonable level plus ten strokes each side with my double acting stirrup pump.
Worth every penny and for me not worth investing in the high pressure £80 plus variety.

Me too- did you do the trick of taping over the relief hole in the pump body?

 

[Kelpie]

Same here. I inherited a LVM pump with the last boat, but found I used my £5 Aldi one more often. The LVM has to be crocodile-clipped directly to the battery, whereas the cheap one plugs into one of the 12v sockets. Both need recourse to a manual pump to finish, the LVM needs fewer strokes, but the cheap one still wins overall on time/effort taken to do the job.

 

[Spyro]

I took the advice of an earlier thread and bought an £8 pump for my Seago 260.
For those who doubt this choice it took under four minutes to inflate it to a reasonable level plus ten strokes each side with my double acting stirrup pump.
Worth every penny and for me not worth investing in the high pressure £80 plus variety.

I think mine was about a fiver from Aldi. In fact I bought 2 but the first one is still going . What is the trick with the hole?