Help with my unisuit!!!!!

[northeastdiver]

I just bought a unisuit off my buddy and the boots are about a half size to small... I dont want to replace the boots because I am now out of money... well i was wondering if anybody had any ideas how i could stretch the soft neoprene in the boots fowards about a half inch... thanks everybody

 

[Bob3]

I suppose you could try a regular shoe stretcher, but that may start loosening up some seams.
Luckily, boots are very simple task to replace on a Unisuit, EZ to do yourself.

 

[northeastdiver]

they dont make shoe stretchers that stretch them fowards... so i can put them on myself. i have no idea how to do that
i can afford the boots though please help me out here

 

[Bob3]

Your local Viking dealer also will be able to set you up with Unisuit parts.
Other than that, you'll need a pair of nice sharp scissors (Fiskars, the owner of Gerber Knives make some nice ones), a can of fresh wetsuit cement (Global, Trident, McNett Seal Cement are good ones) and some seam tape (Viking dealer)
A piece of chalk to mark the front so you don't wind up having a cocked boot & you're all set.
Snip off the old boots, removing the stitched seam & follow the directions on the glue can. The most often mistake folks make doing glue jobs is to not wait long enough between coats, the glue has to be absolutely tack free before adding the second coats AND scrunching the parts together. Push joint together HARD.
Let boots/glue cure overnight (at least) and apply seam tape to dress things up & replace structural integrity lost from removing stitching.

 

[canuckdiver]

do you butt the edges together, and then lay a seal strip over the outside? or do you overlap the edges?

thinking of replacing the boots on my atlan neoprene suit myself.