Just wanted to say that a 'Chinese cupping set' works very well as a cheap alternative to a pumping set. You can get a set with a good number of cylinders for under $10 off ebay etc. You can manually pump up to a comfortable pressure and the cylinders are detachable as well. Only downside is that it doesn't have a pressure gauge - though you can use common sense on what a reasonable pressure is! I've had one for a couple months and it works pretty well, although the diameters are much too wide on the larger cylinders, they are so much better than the 'cut-off syringe' technique 

Thanks for the review, been wondering how well these work.

--Jay