On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Flying Pig wrote: > Hi, y'all, > > Back when we had a very venerable dink, we thought we might succumb to using > a product which, memory has it, you put inside through the valve (removed), > blow it up, and then roll the dink around to distribute it. Something on the > order of fix-a-flat, I expect. > > However, that was in the far distant past and I can't find reference to it > in my archives. So, two questions: > > Anyone used such a product - and, did it work???
I've helped different friends of mine use it twice. Both worked well right off the bat; in the second case, I got to see that dinghy being used for the next three years or so, and it stayed leak-free. > What is it and where can it be bought? West Marine's "Sealant for Inflatables". http://tinyurl.com/lakb34 > In the course of trying to un-barnacle our dink, the On-And-Off product > recommended scraping after application. Really bad idea on an inflatable > but it's only a couple of years old and we'd rather not spring for new tubes > (it's a Walker Bay Genesis, one of which salient purchase features being > that it has replaceable tubes by sliding the new ones on rather than all the > glue excitement needed usually) for another many years... I find that if you use a wide scraper with a thin, flexible blade (these can be hard to find, but Home Depot has my favorite one in the section where they sell cement), you tend not to hang up on the seams. I've been doing that for years, and haven't taken any damage that way. While we're on the subject, I want to recommend a great product for dinghies that West Marine just stopped carrying (???) - the Clam Seal. Our dinghy had a leak that I've been patching and repatching for years, and it kept popping up like a bad penny; once I used the Clam Seal, I haven't had to think about it even once. For $20, that's some of the best money I've ever spent. http://www.landfallnavigation.com/clamseal.html -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
