I suggest you use a mattress pump with some almost dead batteries.  You
will want to inflate it slowly and steadily as it may have weak spots that
can take a slow build-up, but sudden thrust could pop.
If you're not keeping it I think purifying the air is unnecessary.
Vincent

At 02:40 PM 11/10/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestions. In reality, I was simply being a bit obsessive,
>afraid of over inflation, necessity to use pure oxygen, that kind of stuff.
>(I was ready to blow it up with a bicycle pump, but a friend who is also a
>curator made me paranoid). I am on my way to the local K Mart. A little
>confirmation is always good for the ego!
>
>Thanks again!
>
>
>Teresa M. Goforth
>Executive Director
>Courthouse Square Association
>
>
>
>
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