weather balloons R us

I know I am a bit slow but I finally have some photos of the Hugh Mcspeddon weather balloon cover.......
First the balloon, made from latex was put inside the cotton stretch cover and slowly inflated with a vacuum on reverse. It slowly started to rise and the apparition grew and grew in the barn at Montsalvat.

I had to keep checking that the fabric was not caught on the floor and we kept watching as it grew.

Matcham just sat there so mind blown by the event he kept saying "whats it for "and "oh my WE could make a building scaffold out of this"

I was so happy to see it grow .We did have to stop blowing before it got to full size as we thought it would hit the rough timber of the posts in the barn.I tended up about twelve feet diam.With the perfect shape of the sphere in the cotton interlock fabric.