Re: Kibbie Dome helium club

From: William D. gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:47:32 -0400

That's a good point but I was really thinking about balloons popping. Do
Mylar balloons explode like latex balloons? This is an issue not only
for saving helium but also for not destroying models or causing heart
attacks among spectators.

On 4/15/2014 10:44 AM, Brett Sanborn wrote:
> It's not enough just to have a Mylar balloon--it has to be made well.
> At the WC recently, most if not all of the other competitors had Mylar
> balloons and they topped them off every day. We only topped our team
> Mylar balloon off once in 8 days of being down in the mine.
>
> Brett
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM, William D. gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:wdgowen_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> A good way to conserve helium would be for us to have a supply
> source for Mylar balloons. Does anyone know of such a source?
>
>
>
> On 4/15/2014 10:07 AM, john_kagan_at_hotmail.com
> <mailto:john_kagan_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jake,
>>
>>
>> I hope you can make it. We need to get the majority of
>> participants as soon as possible, but we can likely squeeze one
>> or two more people in at the end.
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 15 2014 - 07:47:36 CEST