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Bouyancy Bag Repairs

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Topic: Bouyancy Bag Repairs

Posted By: rb_stretch
Subject: Bouyancy Bag Repairs
Date Posted: 01 Feb 13 at 11:03pm

You can tell that I have a newly acquired boat that I'm trying to sort out. Lots to do means lots of questions. Next on my list is to fix a hole in one of the Holt bouyancy bags. I know you can get quite pricy repair kits, but just wondering if there is a cheap alternative way of fixing small holes?

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 01 Feb 13 at 11:18pm

Did you just want cheap, or did you want longlasting and reliable as well? As I recall in the long distant days when I had to deal with the damned things those latter two were the challenge...

Posted By: Paramedic
Date Posted: 02 Feb 13 at 7:40am

An old bag to cut up for patches and a two part contact adhesive would probably do the job better for the same price or cheaper than one of the kits.

To be honest though in the long term i'd be replacing the bags, preferably with crewsaver ones. If the plastic has gone brittle you'll quite rapidly end up with more repair than bag!

Posted By: rb_stretch
Date Posted: 02 Feb 13 at 8:11am

Sounds like repair kit needs to be purchased!

Thanks

Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 03 Feb 13 at 7:36am

Bostik all purpose glue and some plastic patches kept our Holt bags alive for a couple of years.

Now replaced with Crewsaver ones.

Posted By: SoggyBadger
Date Posted: 03 Feb 13 at 9:02am

The repair kits aren't that expensive. BTW they use Superglue so if you've got some donor material you could just get a tube of that.

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Best wishes from deep in the woods

SB

Posted By: rb_stretch
Date Posted: 03 Feb 13 at 1:35pm

Originally posted by SoggyBadger

The repair kits aren't that expensive. BTW they use Superglue so if you've got some donor material you could just get a tube of that.

It seems that my local chandlery was mis-sold their repair kit by their suppliers, it was £14.89. Given a new bag is £25 that was too much for me. Now found it for £4.36 + postage from trident which seems much more reasonable.

Posted By: batman
Date Posted: 04 Feb 13 at 1:50pm

Bicycle puncture repair kit? Depends how big the hole is I suppose- I've use this method recently to repair a hole on a Musto drysuit...