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Notes to Our Loyal Customers:

The small tubes are available in all eight colors: Red Yellow Blue Black Teal Orange Pink and White.

Teal handles are now in stock.

Black large tubes are out of stock. The extruder has tried twice to get it right, and botched both attempts. In case you are wondering, that is a total of 808 feet of large tube wasted, or, to put it in perspective, 808 feet of large tube makes 404 pumps.

If you really want the large tube in black put your order in, but expect a considerable delay.

And as of this writing only 42 Filberts to go!

If you are thinking about ordering a Filbert Pump be advised that the wait may be as much as SIX (6) weeks.

If you need a pump for an upcoming event plan ahead and order early. Then, call or email us and tell us that you need it by a certain date and we will do our best to meet your deadline. E-mail us at filbertpump @ earthlink.net because we know that one works.

Here is why there may be a long delay:
In an effort to keep costs down, and therefore the price to you, our customers, down as well, we are batching orders. What this means is that we hold orders until we get eight or so, and then make them all at once. One reason for this is that the new glue we are now using costs about 50 cents per pump, up from about one cent per pump with the old glue. It seems the old glue contributed to the cracking base problem that plagued us for quite a while. The old glue was cheap, $10 a pint. The new glue, an epoxy, is $15 an ounce.

Another reason we batch orders is that we can give our part time help a full day's work rather than a few hours here and there. And you all know that a full day's work is always more productive than working just a few hours a day, what with reading the paper, coffee breaks, fire drills, bathroom breaks, fluffing our pillows, sharpening our pencils, and, of course, the all important cocktail hour (sometimes refereed to as liquid lunch.)

In an effort to speed the process we are now building bases and large tubes in the more popular color combinatios. What this means is that if you order a base and large tube color combination that we have in stock, your pump will ship faster. This doesn't work with every order, of course, but it works with quite a few. Our goal is a week or less between your order and our shipment, and we actually accomplish this once in a while.

Email us with your colors choices and we will let you know if it is in stock. We build from the bottom up starting with the base/large tube part because of the glue cure time. We build the rest of the pump while the glue cures.

If the base of your Filbert Pump has cracked contact us for a free replacement. The parts are free, but we ask that you pay the shipping. This helps us keep costs down which translates into lower costs to our customers. Shipping to most places in the US is $12, while shipping to Australia is $41, and to France is $32. so you see it can get expensive real fast.

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Introducing the world famous
Filbert Pump

The World’s Best Balloon Pump!

Inflates a 260 in one stroke! Weighs only 2½ pounds!

The above photos are examples of various color combinations, and the new Pump Tubes. You can create your own color combinations by selecting the color for the Base, Pump tube, Handle, Top Disk, and Top Cap. Each can be a different color so you can mix and match colors to suit your fancy!

We now have seven colors available: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, Bright Orange, Teal, and Hot Pink. All the parts are now injection molded, and, do they look sharp! You’ll be the envy of all your friends with your new Filbert Pump. The Filbert Pump is, indeed the World's Best Balloon Pump!

The Seven Colors of the Filbert Pump

Filbert in person!

 Samples of Filbert Pump colors. Almost all Filbert Pump colors are now in stock.

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