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With a touch of washing up liquid you can do it easily enough by hand, without a pump at all.
squirt a little bit in the end, and just squeeze the grip so it's spread all around the inside.
Then feed it over the end, and use one hand to pull it down (hold it just below the top of the shaft), and use the other hand to push it down (just over the top of the shaft).
Using a rotating motion helps as well.
We'll do a video at some point.
With a bike pump, you need one of those yellow adapters:
Again, use a touch of washing liquid (less than if you do it just by hand), then insert the pump, with adapter, into the top. Pump until a bit of pressure builds up, and with a little bit of pulling it should just slide down.