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[Lord_Beaumont]

I want to sew a patch on my wet suit any ideas or shall I just sew it to a bcd pocket?

 

[DogDiver]

Dont


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[Bob DBF]

Glue it on if you won't be embarrassed later. Don't make holes in wetsuits.


Bob

 

[divad]

If you're willing to sew it onto your forehead, do it.

 

[TMHeimer]

Are you diving salt water?--maybe not so good for patch. Sewing on a wetsuit doesn't sound good.

 

[Michael Guerrero]

I've never done it, but wetsuits are stitched at the seams (good ones, anyway). You need to use a thread that will not degrade over time (nylon?) when exposed to salt water. You could put some aquaseal on the inside of your wetsuit around the stitch marks to prevent water intrusion.

Outside of all that, not sure why so much negativity toward it. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

 

[g1138]

Neoprene Cement or Aqua Seal. Don't sew.

You can attempt to fillet the patch off at a later time if you use Neoprene Cement. AquaSeal is truly permanent.

 

[industrious95]

Clean with cotyl first, then aquaseal. Helps adhere and make a more permanent bond, at least according to the aquaseal literature. Video here demonstrating: Aquaseal / Cotol

 

[DivemasterDennis]

How about this: find a good artist, get appropriate salt water resistant paint, and have them paint the patch on the suit. By the way, what is the patch?
DivemasterDennis

 

[g1138]

How about this: find a good artist, get appropriate salt water resistant paint, and have them paint the patch on the suit. By the way, what is the patch?
DivemasterDennis

*Screen printing*
Many dedicated shops are scared ****less to do it, because it involved a heat plate. They don't want to be responsible for a melted wetsuit.
Generally it's one giant Heat Plate fits all size.

You may find a shop that has experience doing it just the same as the Wetsuit Manufacturers. It usually takes a couple brave customers who have a wetsuit to lose. And the problem is old wetsuits and new wetsuits don't hold the same, so you have to do slightly different timings on the heat press. Or so I'm told at least.

Most other paint no matter how water resistant will only coat the fibers and therefore will rub off over time.
I was looking into this route for company branded wetsuits. But we ditched that option because we can't have oil pastels rubbing off in our exhibit tanks.

Screen printing melts into the fibers so even when you abrade the paint on the space gaps between the material weave of the neoprene, your pattern will still hold on via the colored threading.
Unless you're Henderson.....