Impossibile caricare il contenuto multimediale. The wand is great, the rope is great as well. I had a home made wand, cotton rope, washers for weights, etc. This one is better, the rope is better. There’s no weight at the bottom but I don’t think the weight is necessary, in fact it seems better without. With the home made wand there’s a “lump” at he bottom made of a knot and washers. The bubbles made with the home made wand have extra bubble solution that pools at the bottom of the bubble and that tends to weight the bubble so they sink then pop on contact with the ground. This purchased wand doesn’t have the weight and the bubbles don’t have that extra solution at the bottom so they don’t sink nearly as quickly. The supplied rope is heavy enough when dipped in the bubble solution so the loop hangs open without a weight. The stainless extension wands are nice because they allow one to hold the open loop higher, again not so close to the ground. So I’m happy with this purchase and would recommend it. I’m going to add the mix I now prepare. It contains aguar gum. You only use a tiny bit (1/4 tsp) per liter of bubble mix but it makes a huge difference. Bubbles will “heal”, so an enormously long bubble will self “pinch” and form numerous large bubbles. Without the guar gum, the bubbles start to pinch then they pop. So get the guar gum. I have not used glycerine, I saw one report that it turns grass brown. I’ve seen other reports that glycerine makes no difference to bubbles. Others swear by glycerine. So I use the guar gum, no glycerine. The guar gum is a very fine powder, it’ll clump if you try to add it to water. To prevent that, use some rubbing alcohol, that will make a slurry of the fine powder without dissolving it so you don’t get clumps, then when you add the slurry to the water, it’s already finely divided so it hydrates rapidly and doesn’t clump. The alcohol makes no difference to the bubbles. Then there’s baking powder. It’s the powder, not baking soda. Baking powder is slightly on the acid side of neutral, that surprised me. Baking powder has a little corn starch in it so you will get some white insoluble powder in the bottom of the final bubble mix, that makes no difference. Add the baking powder as the last step. You can add it to the dry guar gum but it takes a whole lot more alcohol to make a liquid slurry and there’s no advantage, so add it at the end. Next, I use Dawn dishwashing detergent. I don’t think you can get Dawn overseas, people use Joy which works well and is available. So where were we... Oh, the slurry. So far it’s guar gum and alcohol. Next slowly add some detergent while stirring briskly. You are using the viscosity of the Dawn to keep the guar particles suspended. Next you’ll add the Dawn/guar/alcohol slurry to water or you can add water to the slurry. You must make sure you’re stirring the water briskly. You want the guar to stay suspended so all those very tiny particles hydrate as tiny particles and not bigger lumps. So now the recipe. It makes a little over a liter, about a quart. Guar gum 1/4 tsp, rubbing alcohol a couple of teaspoons (10g) amount not critical, Dawn 30gm, (recipes range 20-40g), water 1 liter (1 quart), baking powder 1/2 teaspoon. That’s it. Huge bubbles, enormous sausages of bubbles that self pinch into great big bubbles. A note about the water, I used drinking water. We have a reverse osmosis system to provide pure good tasting pure water. I used that. We have softened water, that’s OK to drink but nothing like the filtered water. And we have well water, that’s got so much iron it stains things yellow. So the purest water is what I use and it works very well. Again the recipe: 1. Guar gum, 1/4 tsp 2. Rubbing alcohol, 2 teaspoons or so 3. Dawn, 30 grams. I weigh it but you can measure. You’ll get more than 30g in a 1 ounce measuring cup because Dawn is heavier than water. It isn’t critical). 4. Baking powder 1 teaspoon 5. Water 1 liter People recommend letting the mix rest for a day. I’ve used it right away and get good large bubbles, but if it rests overnight the bubbles are fantastic. So mix more of it, some for right away, some for tomorrow. It goes quickly so mix a lot.
