Recommend me a dinghy hand pump please!

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Can anyone recommend a decent not too expensive upright pump for a dinghy please?

I’ve tried a a SUP pump which is too low volume / high pressure and I was going to try one of my kite pumps which looks ideal but the valve doesn’t fit.

Cheers 🙂
 
I got a rechargeable pump several years ago when I was recovering from open-heart surgery. It's brilliant. Set it going and get on with other stuff. Next tube, more stuff, last tube - done. It can be recharged from a cigar lighter socket or the mains. Mine's a Soprega, which are expensive, but what was available at the time, but there are plenty of cheaper ones around. Maybe worth considering, especially if, like me, you are of mature years?
 
Stemar said:
I got a rechargeable pump several years ago when I was recovering from open-heart surgery. It's brilliant. Set it going and get on with other stuff. Next tube, more stuff, last tube - done. It can be recharged from a cigar lighter socket or the mains. Mine's a Soprega, which are expensive, but what was available at the time, but there are plenty of cheaper ones around. Maybe worth considering, especially if, like me, you are of mature years?
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I had a rechargeable one years ago .... but due to lack of use - battery died ... and at that time I didn't have 'tired' LiPo's to swap into it.

Now I have 12v and 240v airpumps as well as the Double Action I mentioned above.
 
Cheers, so just a boggo standard one will do it, nothing flashy 🙂

I might look at electric ones but I have an electric SUP pump and don’t use because it’s no quicker than hand pumping and the noise is pretty antisocial.
 
Another idea is to get a ryobi one so you can pump up cars tyres quickly but also use batteries for strummer/drill or whatever . A non flashy idea is to look at Decathlon for pumps .
 
Phil_boat said:
Can anyone recommend a decent not too expensive upright pump for a dinghy please?

I’ve tried a a SUP pump which is too low volume / high pressure and I was going to try one of my kite pumps which looks ideal but the valve doesn’t fit.

Cheers 🙂
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Like a few others in this thread, I recently bought a usb-c rechargeable pump. Mine was from Lidl, think it was £10. Best of all it was really tiny (about 6cm x 4cm dia) and powerful. It took about 10 minutes to inflate a 4-man dinghy. Don't know how long it will last, but I was delighted with it.
 
Phil_boat said:
Cheers, so just a boggo standard one will do it, nothing flashy 🙂

I might look at electric ones but I have an electric SUP pump and don’t use because it’s no quicker than hand pumping and the noise is pretty antisocial.
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Yeah. I chucked away my footpump and exclusively use one or other of the paddle board pumps that accumulate like mobile phone chargers.

I think you were unlucky with yours or perhaps had it switched set for for high pressure low volume. With the switch turned the correct way I find them so fast on the dinghy it's not really worth an electric pump.
 
Mark-1 said:
Yeah. I chucked away my footpump and exclusively use one or other of the paddle board pumps that accumulate like mobile phone chargers.

I think you were unlucky with yours or perhaps had it switched set for for high pressure low volume. With the switch turned the correct way I find them so fast on the dinghy it's not really worth an electric pump.
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Ah… well now I feel a bit silly. I haven’t pumped up a SUP for about 3 years and had forgotten that they have a high / low pressure switch.

And logically it would be set to the high pressure setting as that’s the last setting you’d use to pump up a SUP.

I shall give it a try… again!
 
Post 2 shows examples of pumps I have used upon Avons.

They are great; blow and vacuum; I even used one as a bilge pump once (had to dry it out afterwards).

Cheap and do the job VERY quickly.
 
I have several dinghy pumps including one of the type show in post #2. I found that using that type knackered my back! My favourite type of pump is the foot-operated bellows type that was supplied with Avon Redcrests. I use them along with a cheap low-pressure pump that I got in Tesco that quickly inflates the dinghy to a floppy state. It is such low pressure that the dinghy valve must be open so it must be closed quickly when the hose is removed, then the foot pump is used to pressurize the compartment I am inflating. That pump is 12 Volt, as is my other electric pump. It operates at higher speed and gets to a pressure close to the final required pressure. Only a few strokes of the foot pump are needed for each compartment. I think the high speed pump is LVM and they were quite expensive, around £70.
 
Bodach na mara said:
I have several dinghy pumps including one of the type show in post #2. I found that using that type knackered my back! My favourite type of pump is the foot-operated bellows type that was supplied with Avon Redcrests. I use them along with a cheap low-pressure pump that I got in Tesco that quickly inflates the dinghy to a floppy state. It is such low pressure that the dinghy valve must be open so it must be closed quickly when the hose is removed, then the foot pump is used to pressurize the compartment I am inflating. That pump is 12 Volt, as is my other electric pump. It operates at higher speed and gets to a pressure close to the final required pressure. Only a few strokes of the foot pump are needed for each compartment. I think the high speed pump is LVM and they were quite expensive, around £70.
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I agree that the vertical pumps as in my post #2 - are short and you are bent over to use ... I have a bad back from snapping spine just over 3yrs ago .. so I too suffer when using. But compared to the Foot bellows ? I find the foot bellows very tiring and slow.

My 12v e-pump does the main work as you .. then its just a few strokes of the vertical pump being dual action to finish off. I also find the vertical pump easier to use in the dinghy if a few psi is needed when using ...
 
Bodach na mara said:
I have several dinghy pumps including one of the type show in post #2. I found that using that type knackered my back! My favourite type of pump is the foot-operated bellows type that was supplied with Avon Redcrests. I use them along with a cheap low-pressure pump that I got in Tesco that quickly inflates the dinghy to a floppy state. It is such low pressure that the dinghy valve must be open so it must be closed quickly when the hose is removed, then the foot pump is used to pressurize the compartment I am inflating. That pump is 12 Volt, as is my other electric pump. It operates at higher speed and gets to a pressure close to the final required pressure. Only a few strokes of the foot pump are needed for each compartment. I think the high speed pump is LVM and they were quite expensive, around £70.
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Yes, the 12v LVM pumps are great. Mine is over 20 years old, takes 2 minutes to pump my inflatable up to full working pressure so no secondary pump required.
Rule LVM ID-20 High-Speed Inflator Deflator Air Pump 12v
 
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