Hurricane Rita

[thedude]

In light of the hurricane boring down on the Texas Gulf coast, anyone know if any of the LFS in Austin carry battery operated air pumps?

John

[Sunhutch]

I got mine at Wal-Mart

[brewercm]

Check sporting goods (fishing section). Much cheaper than any LFS unless you just want to support the LFS and they are unlikely to carry them.

[btacker]

So do you use this pump with just an air stone or a bubble wand or what? Also, what did the one you got at Wal-Mart or a sporting goods store look like?

[btacker]

Are yall talking about this?

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=895608

Seems like that would blow too much air and run down quickly...

[brewercm]

It will be in the fishing section with the bait buckets. Ask the guy for a battery operated bait bucket airator. Just hook it up to standard air line with a good air stone, air wand, whatever you want to use to keep air in the tank some.

[btacker]

Sweet. Thanks guys! I'm gonna go look right now.

[witecap4u]

I got two last night. Had to search around for batteries though...finally found some in the camera dept. The air pumps are supposed to run for 33hrs on two D batteries.

cs

[btacker]

I just got back from academy with an air pump that is supposed to run 60 hours on 2 Ds. It was $9.99

[thedude]

Found one at petsmart actually. For 15 bucks, I plug it into my power strip and the minute the power fails, the air pump kicks on. Pretty cool little device. http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=84552444177 9314&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302030044&ASSORT MENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023693&bmUID=1127413137 261

[CD]

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