Originally Posted by Big Thud Joe
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Regarding riding, I think frankfrank is the glove rider around here and is the one to ask...
Everytime I open this thread, that photo of the "body size" inflated glove immediately gets me aroused, that's already a good indication.
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I am a glove rider, but I'm not familiar with that body-length glove that you post - can somebody ride that at, say, 70% of that inflation? In that picture, how close is it to B2P?
I do really like those orange North surgical gloves, though! I actually keep my stash in the refrigerator (and I really should do that with all balloon stashes), because it's a cold environment and I'm guessing that decay and degradation are slowed down, just as nearly all other chemical reactions are.
With those gloves, I ended up with a lot of Large (the 11's) and I was very surprised how much larger they are than the 9's. Even if it pops, it's not "finished": I have a cloth winter glove that I've cut the fingers and thumb off of, but retained strips of glove between each cut-off finger base that no strip will tear and unite fingers.
I'll take the popped glove, and cut most of it away, still leaving enough that there's a membrane your month can have around it, and I'll stick one of the fingers in the popped glove into one of the finger holes. If one does it carefully, you can blow up one chosen finger, and twist the base of the inflated finger around until it's sealed. Voila! - a "jellybean" balloon! It may be more than a foot long, especially with the middle finger.
This can also be done without using the cloth fingers-cut-off glove, but I just find that easier. Thankfully I have ample long capacity to manually inflate the finger-balloons with little effort.
With the North gloves, that inflated and twisted-off finger doesn't pop even if I stand on it with my full weight. That's pretty wild.