Pin hole in BC inflator
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mmurphey:
It's a $10 rubber hose. If it was something like the o-ring in the connector yah sure. But a leak in the rubber? No way.
Get a new hose. They way the rubber stretches it is very hard to patch successfully and if you have one hole, you will probably soon have many more. And as indicated above, it's a $10 item and you'd spend half that amount on glue to try to patch it.
mmurphey:
Like the others said, New hose. A small hole in your inflator is the beginning of a big hole in your inflator (bad news) and anything you do to try fixing it, in my experience, won't hold for long enough to make it worth the effort.
Every BCD I've ever had has needed a new inflator hose every 200 dives or so. It's normal maintenance.
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Tiny Bubbles
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Ditto what everyone said. I had a pinhole there before, and temporarily plugged it from the inside with some shoe-goo. It didn't leak, but I replaced the hose as soon as I could. I replaced it with a shorter one, as the original one was much longer than necessary. It's a good time to adjust the hose length. Mike's scuba and abyss sell various lengths of those convoluted hoses online.
-tiny-B.
-tiny-B.
Well there you go...Someone named Tiny Bubbles HAS to know! 
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