Slightly off-topic but it is about damaging wetsuits. For those of you with HydroSkin wetsuit, avoid velcro. Velcro attaches to the neoprene and tears it up. Since much of our gear seems to have velcro on it somewhere (booties, dry-tops, jackets), I keep all my neoprene and Hydroskin in stuff sacks. Just FYI. As for repairing, I'd say Aquaseal or similar and a round piece of thin neo or perhaps nylon. Like a Thermarest and tent repair kit. I've never repaired a wetsuit, so you'd be best off ignoring that advice and wait until someone more knowledgeable recommends something! -Patrick At 12:26 PM -0300 4/11/01, Ulli Hoeger wrote: >[SNIP] >At that occasion I discovered some minor damage on my wet suit. >Looks like I got hooked up on something sharp. It's not a hole all >the way through, just some of the neoprene -not nylon covered in >that spot- is pluged out reducing the 3mm drysuit to maybe 1 mm >at that quartersize spot. No big deal but a possible weak spot for >future damage -full hole-. Therefore I would like to patch that spot >up. [SNIP] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 12:34:54 PDT
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