Leading edge blew out tonight before I could get into the water, the only good night is a week and my kite shizzits itself
who does the bladder repairs around perth ?
does "Hold the line do both ???
or do i need to go some where else ??
and there was some good wind waves happening as well !!!!!!!


I hate that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any way i suppose there will be another day

if it is a burst you have to patch it or replace it. but if it is just a line you can use baking paper and put it either side of the tear and iron it back together if you don't want to buy a whole new bladder.

yep

Neil at Hold the Line
will fix your kite up good

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ianmac said...

Leading edge blew out tonight before I could get into the water, the only good night is a week and my kite shizzits itself
who does the bladder repairs around perth ?
does "Hold the line do both ???
or do i need to go some where else ??
and there was some good wind waves happening as well !!!!!!!


I hate that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any way i suppose there will be another day

SOS for any bladder issues, John and Andy are really good.

Neil for kite repairs, I think Neil sends bad bladder cases to SOS anyway.

Best to give to Neil tomorrow and you will have it back all sorted for next windy day.

Tear Air for bladder repairs, will fix almost any bladder issue.
www.kitepower.com.au/collections/kitesurfing/SPGeneral

Check the blowout pic on that page fixed in 5 mins, I've done hundreds of repairs with it now, and hardly ever use the welding method anymore.

Neil at HTLK for all sewing repairs on any type of kite.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

Steve is that basically a big version of the puncture repair patches you get with kites?

Sounds like a quick and easy way to do the repair if so.

One question though, how long does it stay stuck after the repair and subsequent sessions / sunlight / salt water etc.?

You gotta stop crashing your kite Ian.

Ba ha ha ha - like who am I to comment!?

Pity I couldn't return the favour and smugly kite past your mangled mess as per my tear apart session a few weeks back. Alas i had to work late last night on the only decent wind for a while.. sigh.. time to resume my crochet classes.

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GalahOnTheBay said...

Steve is that basically a big version of the puncture repair patches you get with kites?

Sounds like a quick and easy way to do the repair if so.

One question though, how long does it stay stuck after the repair and subsequent sessions / sunlight / salt water etc.?

Yes it is a larger version of the same stuff that those little patch kits are made of. Its incredibly useful stuff for kites, I use it to repair cuts in the sail too, it stick like nothing else and its virtually impossible to get off once stuck on, same as those little patches.

I've never heard of it coming off a bladder ever, and its so easy to use. I would never travel without this stuff and KiteFix.

In saying that, its ideal for repairs like one I had the other day. Rider ended up downwind in a lull and his kite washed onto oyster covered rocks. He was lucky only to get cuts in the canopy, the LE was untouched.
However he has a lerge number of cuts in the canopy, sewing them would have been expensive and not cosmetically good either.
I used Kitefix/GlueFix and tear aid, took approx 2 hrs to do, in between emails and phone calls, total cost to the customer is $60, and the repairs are hardly visible. There were approx 15 cuts ranging from a couple of cm's to some that were over 25cms long.


Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

Thanks Steve,

How does this stuff compare to the sail repair tape you can get from boat shops?