air bulb operated shutter release trouble

[pinkarmy]

bought this 20 ft shutter release with an air bulb (not from B & H but it looks exactly the same) a year ago, intended to do some family self portrait.

it's my bad that i forgot it and i stored it without box together with a mix bag of stuff. It was under heavy objects so now that the air bulb lost its full balloon shape (pressed like a croissants)
i tried to sqeeze it, the needle do come out but not powerful enough to trigger the shutter.

any hint for a restore? (...i mean, apart from "buy another")

 

[sevo]

First of all, remove the hose at one of the small metal connectors - in the most trivial case all that happened is that you lost some air. If that does not do it, put the bulb in hot (but not too hot) water to restore it to its original shape. If it still does not hold its expanded shape, you might try to store it in inflated condition for a while.

 

[pinkarmy]

a big THANKS! ;D

update: it works!! 😉thanks again.