Balloon Recycling

July 18th, 2009

Still, I am waiting for better weather. Sure there have been some good days but none where I had time for this. Meanwhile my balloon has been waiting patiently in the shelter.

I left him filled with gas as he was, trying to save some of it. Today he was nearly empty so I decided to pack it back to a safer place. The balloon did not only looked very rumpled but also the plastic had formed concretions. I used a very impressive trick I found on the internet (where else!).

With a hair-dryer I headed the balloon up and the plastic morphed back to it’s original form. I should have mad a video because the morphing looked really amazing but you can still see the difference on the pictures.

Looks like it will never fly again...

Blow-dried and washed it lookes like new. Wow!

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