Damaged foam from shipping

How to Make Skywalker Trampolines 60 Inch Round Seaside Adventure Bouncer with Enclosure Last Longer With Duct Tape

Hardware:

• Skywalker Trampolines 60 In. Round Seaside Adventure Bouncer with Enclosure
• Single Roll of Duct Tape or 3 Pack of Duct Tape
• You might even consider using colored duct tape to make it not look like duct tape 🙂

Step 1: Put a single wrap of tape around each end of the foam.

I found if you tore off a bunch of 4-inch pieces the process went a lot faster.  4 inches is the perfect length.  Tear them off in advance:

Duct tape ready to be deployed 🙂

The top wrapped

Wrapping the ends

Here I have all the ends wrapped

Step 2: Now wrap all the foam of the Vertical Standards FIRST at an angle to cover its entire surface with duct tape.

Do the vertical bars first so you can put on the screen (which will hold the horizontal loop together when you are tying it all in place with tape.  You’ll need to play around with the angle when you wrap the foam because if you go at too big of an angle you’ll miss a strip but if you do too tight of an angle you overlap too much.  This is about the perfect angle:

In search of the perfect angle

All the vertical standards wrapped up

Step 3: Reinstall the screen on the top caps before you proceed.

By doing this you hold the horizontal loop together.  You don’t want it coming apart when you are taping it together and you don’t want to tape the bars if they are not fitting together tight either.

The screen reinstalled on the top caps

Step 4: Wrap the horizontal side rail loop sections.

Now that you have the netting installed all the joints ought to be held tightly together.

Wrapping up the horizontal side rail loop

Step 5: Wrap the intersections.

I put two wraps of tape around each of the 6 intersections:

The intersections need tape too 🙂

Wrap diagonally one direction:

Wrapping diagonally the first direction

Now wrap diagonally the other direction to complete the intersection:

The finished product–a wrapped up intersection

Once you have covered up all the foam in duct tape you can jump back to my original installations instruction page and skip down to step 12 to finish:

How to Set up a Skywalker Trampolines 60 Inch Round Seaside Adventure Bouncer with Enclosure

Now I have applied duct tape to all the foam–the trampoline’s lifetime (and quality) has been increased

In case you were wondering how much duct tape this actually took, you can see what the roll looked like before and after I was done:

Left, before I started, right, when I was done

Now you’ve added months if not years more life to your trampoline and maybe spared your kid a bruise or two.