Dry glove repair

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Doof

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I did a quick search on this but didn't find anything.

I just got back from a rather miserable dive during which I discovered that one of my dry gloves has a small hole in the thumb. By the time I was done with the dive, I was soaked up to my elbow!

So... how do you go about repairing something like this? It's a really small hole, probably no longer than a 1/16 of an inch, and it's only down through the blue material. The inner "lining" (it's kind of like a very porous thread mesh - not the liners I use for insulation) is still intact, but obviously not water proof. :eek:ut:

Any relatively easy DIY method of repairing this? Or should I just take it up to my LDS?
 
Buy a pair of kitchen gloves. Cut a small piece, put some AquaSeal over the hole and put the patch over that. Let set, put a thin layer of AquaSeal over the patch.
 
MechDiver is right, you can patch them pretty much like an innertube. Be sure you degrease & lightly scuff the areas to be glued, it makes a whole lot of difference.
You can put patches on both the inside & outside of the glove.

Those Nordic Blues are nice & flexible, but don't hold up for squat.
Might want to think about investing in some Kevlar if you don't need the maximum dexterity all the time.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/peregrine/

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