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Inflatable Boat Repair
My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon.
Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. |
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Inflatable Boat Repair
My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon.
Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. Almost sounds like that Fix-a-flat junk they sell in auto parts stores. Fix a flat is "Temporary use only". You really want to trust your life to a can of rubberized Cheez Whiz? You really ought to consider replacing a dinghy that is so old that it has become "porous". Lots of swap meets this time of year. Probably pick up something for a few hundred bucks, and it would have to cost at least a hunskey to have anybody do any sort of skilled job of pumping miracle goo into your old boat. :-) |
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Inflatable Boat Repair
My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon.
Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. Almost sounds like that Fix-a-flat junk they sell in auto parts stores. Fix a flat is "Temporary use only". You really want to trust your life to a can of rubberized Cheez Whiz? You really ought to consider replacing a dinghy that is so old that it has become "porous". Lots of swap meets this time of year. Probably pick up something for a few hundred bucks, and it would have to cost at least a hunskey to have anybody do any sort of skilled job of pumping miracle goo into your old boat. :-) |
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I bought the liquid from a place that sold Zodiacs, a Google search
should find it. It lasts for a while, the only permanent fix is to go buy boat made from hypalon. My advice is to save your money, unless a temporary fix is what you are looking for. andrea wrote: My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon. Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. |
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I bought the liquid from a place that sold Zodiacs, a Google search
should find it. It lasts for a while, the only permanent fix is to go buy boat made from hypalon. My advice is to save your money, unless a temporary fix is what you are looking for. andrea wrote: My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon. Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. |
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Any name would help the Google search :-)
"Jim" wrote in message hlink.net... I bought the liquid from a place that sold Zodiacs, a Google search should find it. It lasts for a while, the only permanent fix is to go buy boat made from hypalon. My advice is to save your money, unless a temporary fix is what you are looking for. andrea wrote: My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon. Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. |
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Any name would help the Google search :-)
"Jim" wrote in message hlink.net... I bought the liquid from a place that sold Zodiacs, a Google search should find it. It lasts for a while, the only permanent fix is to go buy boat made from hypalon. My advice is to save your money, unless a temporary fix is what you are looking for. andrea wrote: My old inflateble has become porous. It's made of the neoprene, not hypalon. Have heard about some liquid that impregnates the rubber from the inside. One is supposed to sip it into the chambers. Please if anyone knows where to find it (web address). Any experience? Thx in advance. |
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Inflatable Boat Repair
On 03 Apr 2004 18:47:23 GMT, Gould 0738 wrote:
My old inflateble has become porous. snip... You really want to trust your life to a can of rubberized Cheez Whiz? snip.. you don't get out of a big boat into a little boat to save you life anyway..go with the cheesewhiz. In fact there are perm~ repair conpunds that will work fine just like the tire flat liquid, soe of which is designed to be used prophylacticly= longterm. the reason it is temp~ in a tire is obvious and doensn't apply to a dingy. IMHO rick |
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Inflatable Boat Repair
On 03 Apr 2004 18:47:23 GMT, Gould 0738 wrote:
My old inflateble has become porous. snip... You really want to trust your life to a can of rubberized Cheez Whiz? snip.. you don't get out of a big boat into a little boat to save you life anyway..go with the cheesewhiz. In fact there are perm~ repair conpunds that will work fine just like the tire flat liquid, soe of which is designed to be used prophylacticly= longterm. the reason it is temp~ in a tire is obvious and doensn't apply to a dingy. IMHO rick |
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Inflatable Boat Repair
you don't get out of a big boat into a little boat to save you life
anyway..go with the cheesewhiz. You're right. What's the rule of thumb? Never step *down* into a boat when abandoning ship? I was thinking more of a situation where you make a dinghy run in the middle of the night...(dog needs to go ashore and pee, whatnot)...and about halfway across the bay the seams let go from rot. Suddenly, you're swamped or worse. Up this way, you count your survival time in the water in minutes. Skinny people might last less than15-20, those with more "blubber" get to agonize a little longer. |
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