Self-detonating balloons

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  • Bubblyzzz
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2017
    • 266

    #31
    Re: Self-detonating balloons

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    • glovepopper
      Senior Member
      • May 2019
      • 199

      #32
      Re: Self-detonating balloons

      Have any of you tried to use an aquarium pump to make delayed balloon explosion? These pumps are slow, and very quiet...

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      • BYGavia
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2017
        • 246

        #33
        Re: Self-detonating balloons

        Looks as though you just need a heavy gas. :-)

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        • Common Loon
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2020
          • 232

          #34
          Re: Self-detonating balloons

          With a AA battery, a resistor, and a short length of nichrome wire you could make a tiny heater. Tape the wire to the balloon.

          If you pick the resistor so that the wire heats up s-l-o-w-l-y it could give you a nice long fuse

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          • pinpopper
            Member
            • Mar 2019
            • 58

            #35
            Re: Self-detonating balloons

            is there anything you could freeze into an Ice cube that would pop the balloon when the ice melted ?

            Either something sharp like pins or an ice chemical mixture ?

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            • MiTho
              Junior Member
              • Sep 2018
              • 5

              #36
              Re: Self-detonating balloons

              I think the method Susie described on page 1 is the best and the method that pop the balloons most randomly, it is my favorite method, too. In my room I always inflate the balloons to the max with full neck, then press the neck halfway back into the balloon-body and tie them off. About 60-80% of them pop for themselves at some point, the rest of them need an additional treatment

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              • Common Loon
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2020
                • 232

                #37
                Re: Self-detonating balloons

                Originally posted by MiTho
                I always inflate the balloons to the max with full neck, then press the neck halfway back into the balloon-body and tie them off
                I'm curious, why push the neck back in? Is it because it's impossible to tie? Or because it makes the balloon tighter? (Or both?) I would think that half the time, the balloon would pop the moment you squished the neck in like that.

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                • Heliumpongo
                  Banned
                  • Dec 2014
                  • 72

                  #38
                  Re: Self-detonating balloons

                  Originally posted by pinpopper
                  is there anything you could freeze into an Ice cube that would pop the balloon when the ice melted ?

                  Either something sharp like pins or an ice chemical mixture ?

                  That seems more trouble and less reliable than the dry ice idea.
                  Pellets of dry ice fit neatly into a balloon neck and sublimate to gas as they warm. You can tie off a balloon while it's still flacid and the dry ice will fill it to bursting over the course of hours. It's amazing to watch and exciting to anticipate.

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                  • balloonPatcher
                    Senior Member
                    • Jun 2020
                    • 236

                    #39
                    Re: Self-detonating balloons

                    I think pushing the neck back is to get enough neck to tie them off?

                    The 17" marbled punch balloons seem to be self-detonating.
                    If inflated to their full rated size, I have had 4 or 5 burst spontaneously while I was
                    doing something else. The latest was yesterday. Inflated one and tied it off and while
                    I was inflating another, boom,... I told my wife, that the boom was me. Oh, she said and didn't even look up.

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                    • MiTho
                      Junior Member
                      • Sep 2018
                      • 5

                      #40
                      Re: Self-detonating balloons

                      Originally posted by Common Loon
                      I'm curious, why push the neck back in? Is it because it's impossible to tie? Or because it makes the balloon tighter? (Or both?) I would think that half the time, the balloon would pop the moment you squished the neck in like that.
                      Indeed mostly because of the more increased pressure , nevertheless the fact that it is lighter then to tie the balloon off is another advantage. Note, I just push the neck halfway back, otherwise it won't look very good.

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