I have no experience with that product, but I DO have a lot of experience
with a product called "Shoe Goo". It's also packaged as "Goop" and you can
find a tube at the local hardware store for about 5 bucks.

Shoe Goo is advertised as a product to repair the soles of shoes and it
works. It's tough and it sticks to anything. It was the only thing I could
find to glue the sail batten pockets on my old Hobie Cat. In fact, the only
thing that would stick. I've used it to seal leaks in an aluminum trailer
and am currently using it in the cockpit of my LAK to glue a USB female
connector in my panel to power my Android.

It remains flexible. For the price and availability, you should give it a
try. Just smear it along the suspect seam, let it set up, and give it a
try. Oh, yeah... Use a rubber glove or else smear it on with a popsicle
stick because it's hard to get off your fingers.


"RAS56" wrote in message
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Greetings folks,

I have an older pair of Smiley bags for my ASW-19 that have a couple of
small leaks that I've tried to track down but seem to be more "seepage"
leaks than outright something I can patch (even finding the source of
the leak has been a problem). One is in or near the seam of each of the
bags.

When John at Eastern Sailplanes quoted me a replacement cost of 1100
bucks for new, I had a renewed interest in seeing if I can get these old
ones to hold water!

I'm thinking about using a non-toxic latex product used in the
inflatable boat industry to seal small leaks of a similar
nature..."ToobSeal". Seems like a pretty benign product:

http://tinyurl.com/7tmxen5

Anyone have any experiences with this stuff or something similar?
Suggestions? Ideas?

Currently, I have a non-usable set of bags on my hands...worst case
scenario...that stays the same. Best case...I bring these suckers back
to life!

Thanks in advance,

Rob

ZAP




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RAS56