Selecting Your Cylinder Size

I like to use KY because it is so easy to clean up after, but wet the inside of the tube with water or dilute the KY with a little water to prevent it from drying up while pumping.

Wouldn’t diluting with water make it drying up worse? Since water is more easily absorbed by the skin.

Hey guys I’m new and have a question.
My penis head girth is 4.5, and shaft is around 4.1 at best.
For girth I bought a 1.75 diameter LeLuv cylinder thinking the widest part was the glans anyways, and that I aimed for shaft girth increases.

Am I correct in my newbie assumptions?

Thanks!

You might have a little hassle with your balls trying to be sucked into the cylinder. If you do, try bone pressing the cylinder into your crotch as you begin to pump up and that should help. Also be careful where you put your lube.

Thanks, also;

I recently bought a Hydromax X30 but I realized the pressure was way out of my league, didn’t want to risk it.
If I gradually become acclimated to a LeLuv 1.75, would using the Hydromax X30 become easier later on as I gain experience? Do air vacuums pave the way for more efficient water pump use?

Thanks, also;

I recently bought a Hydromax X30 but I realized the pressure was way out of my league, didn’t want to risk it.
If I gradually become acclimated to a LeLuv 1.75, would using the Hydromax X30 become easier later on as I gain experience? Do air vacuums pave the way for more efficient water pump use?

According to the table I’m way off the mark in using a 12” x 2.5”! My BPEL is 7.75” with mid-shaft girth at 6”. I’m hitting 8” in the tube and manage, with a bit of care, to maintain a good seal at the base and avoid a testicle being sucked into the tube. I bought this monster based on a table published on a UK website, but had I seen this excellent table here I think a wiser choice would have been 11” x 2”.

Look at the first post in this thread that shows how Bathmate pumps can reach a vacuum pressure of 16 to 17"hg when they are pumped until no more water is expelled.

Bathmate vs Penomet Vacuum Gauge Pressure Readings

Air pumps are certainly a much safer way to condition yourself to pumping, but even when fully conditioned, you don’t need pressure much higher then 6"hg to get significant results. The key is to pump for longer times at moderate pressure.

Perhaps using the air pump will give you a feeling for the equivalent pressure you are experiencing in a Bathmate, but in my experience, it is hard to equate the pressure you feel in air to that in water. Just try not to pump the Bathmate up to even half its capability.

I would venture a guess the reason some people report massive gains in a short amount of time with the BM is because of it actually producing 17Hg pressure like everytime you pump it to max. If I didn’t misunderstand the video instructions guys put it on pump until they cant expel more water (so 17Hg) and keep it on for 5mins take it off and massage then repeat 3 times?

I take it you have never pumped. There is no way you should start off with a bathmate and pump it to the max without causing significant blown capillaries and bruising damage. Starting pressure for newbies is in the 3”hg range.

You are right. Im just so confused because I got the impression from the bathmate instruction you are supposed to pump it until no water comes out and voila. Would water protect you from blown capillaries maybe? As opposed to air pumping. I dont understand the product and why its so effective for some people.

When water pumping, on the other hand, the penis will expand outward to a fully erect state, and encounter an incompressible “wall” of water. This wall essentially stops further expansion from happening at an unrestricted rate. If not overzealous with your pumping intensity, this will prevent most fluid retention as there is really no place for the fluid to go – significantly more force is required to shove fluid across membranes into these constricted spaces. Water can slowly be evacuated from the cylinder at this point with the aim of creating a slow further expansion, just fast enough to keep up with the viscoelastic creep of the tunica. Here, the heat of the water also aids in further and easier tunica expansion. In this way, water pumping doesn’t directly “pull” more on the tunica, as many have said here, instead it limits fluid (other than blood) buildup/inflow, allowing more of the total expansion achieved during the pumping session to be from tunica creep.

Man I knew I should have done some research. I didn’t even think about cylinder size when I ordered one. I kinda figured the ring at the bottom was key to not sucking up testicles lol. I do notice that a lot of people recommend 3-5 hg and I’m feeling it very intensely at 2-2.5hg. Could this be from the cylinder being too big? Not sure on the cylinder size but it sucks up a good mount of flesh under my base when pumping and it’s very spacious lol. I hope that’s what up cause I don’t even want to try 5hg at this rate lol