BC repair

[Scubaroo]

What's the best tube of gunk to patch a cordura BC with? I had to make some small slits in my Halcyon Pioneer wing to remove the internal rods that form the "integrated STA", to allow use of a heavier external tank adapter, and I don't want to run the risk of the slits tearing or ragging. And yes the slits were into a non-inflating part of the wing! Someone suggested using heat to "weld" the slits shut, but I don't have access to a soldering iron.

And what's the best stuff to glue say a pocket onto a neoprene wetsuit? I actually want to use it to glue a small embroidered patch onto the suit, but might be adding a pocket later.

Ben

 

[Uncle Pug]

For the patch and the slits:

AquaSeal with Cotol accelerator....

Clean the area with the Cotol and then mix 1:1 Cotol & Aquaseal...

For the pockets.... it depends on the suit material.

 

[Scubaroo]

Thanks

Had heard of the Aquaseal, but didn't know about the Cotol - that will come in handy seeing as I have dived with the wing (pre-slit) and even though I cleaned it, it won't be perfectly clean.

The suit is bog plain old 7mm neoprene in good condition. Pockets are some ways off yet, so I'll just get the Aquaseal.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Hi Ben,
I think the Cotol is just plain old MEK but in a little expensive bottle ;-)

Mixed 1:1 it will cause the AquaSeal to set up much faster.

We have trouble with our pockets coming off so we just glue them back on every so often...

I would think that a neoprene cement would work but stay turned here for more informed posts.

 

[Lost Yooper]

We used neoprene cement for our gluing our neoprene pockets to our crushed neoprene suits.

Mike

 

[Uncle Pug]

I knew he would be along with helpful info!!!

Shane has a crushed neo DUI but the pockets are nylon and the LDS had a problem getting them to stay on...

I need to find out what they used the last time because it seemed to work.

 

[The Chairman]

On your wet suit??? Please 'splain...

 

[Scubaroo]

Haven't found the pocket on my backplate harness yet

Thinking about a thigh pocket. I bought the DiveRite thigh pocket that straps on with Velcro, and has a webbing loop that you put your waist harness webbing through, but the Halcyon weight system on my harness doesn't allow me to use this, so I was thinking of just adding some pockets like you see on drysuits to my wetsuit.

 

[Lost Yooper]

Here's a link you can use for reference. http://www.diveshop.co.uk/pages/repairs/pocket/html/pocket_1.html

I'm no suit repair expert, but you can stitch on and glue a pocket to a wetsuit. I didn't have any hardener when I did my pocket on my drysuit, but it's doing just fine. I soaked both suit and the back of the pocket with cement, let it kinda dry up a bit, then stuck it on. So far so good.

Bob3 knows about fixin' suits and used to have pockets for them too.

Good luck.

Mike

 

[NetPro]

I don't know about the wetsuit stuff cause I'm not wet behind the ears yet but a lot of skydiving equipment is made of cordura. It gets modified all the time at the local drop zone by a parachute rigger. Can't these be sewn?

If I had a mod to do on something made out of Nylon, I'd go see on of my buds from my freefall days.

NetPro the newbie