Jay's Boingy Tails | Behind the Scenes 🐾

This time the gasket was successful, So I started a full pump test. The larger lid was ever so slightly not up to the task.

New lid. Just a steel disc. :)

Hey everyone, just an update on what's going on in the near future: Next weekend, I'll be in Portland OR for Furlandia. It's been 4 years since I did that event, seems it's gotten quite a bit bigger in that time, so I'm expecting a pretty good time of it. First priority before that is to get every order that's already been paid shipped. After that, I'm gearing down for the month of June. I have a lot of work to do on the home front getting my home and workshop prepared for sale and reolocation, and the team is looking to upgrade the website and payment infrastructure. In the long term this should help a lot to get tails shipped more efficiently. Short term pain, long term gain. We're also doing work on v7 cores, the first major revision in the boingy tail design in nearly 2 years. Not to worry, all new cores will be compatible with all previous sleeves, and all new sleeves will be compatible with all previous cores. And I'm hoping to get a bit of a vacation this summer as well. Being a tailer is fun, but 4 years of continuous acceleration and growth have taken a bit of a toll and I'm really starting to feel the need for a few weeks of not thinking about molds and conventions and executive orders. The one thing I don't want to do is go on vacation while anyone has paid for a shipment that hasn't shipped.