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Very amusing exchanges gentlemen, thanks for the entertainment!
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Swissiphic is tagging out and taking his hot glue gun ideas elsewhere. No ref required. lol. Long live AQS.Quote:
Originally Posted by riff
I caint see it from my house.
hey if anybody has a question or an idea for the use of AQS I'm interested so post away & I will help you do the best fix possible,
If you don't like the stuff, if you have alternative ideas ... pick another avenue
Does Crappy Tire sell an equivalent product? Maybe this stuff?:
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/l...0348p.html#srp
My wife burned some holes in a puffy jacket. I saw some mentions for tenacious tape for that. What would be the best permanent AQS fix? Obviously only access from the outside. Tape the inside and close up, then AQS on the outside trying to be as neat as possible?
OR, I wonder if it would be possible to make an AQS "patch" and somehow get it on the inside, close up the tear edges over it, then masking tape the outside. Like plastic (keep from getting on feathers), drier sheet, AQS then maneuver it inside? Freeze it first to keep from sticking to everything, then heat it up once it's all taped on the outside?
not sure what that stuff isQuote:
Originally Posted by gwat
a fishing/hunting store will sell AQS to fix waders
you could also try walmart
shoo goo or freesole or seam seal is all the same product in different consistancies ... liquid ureathane
Tenacious tape is good but its not very permanent, I have an elbow hole I have taped twice and it just keeps breaking at the elbow joint, I probably should have used AQS to begin with but at this point I will just keep taping it or glue a crest over the hole or sft, gluing a crest over holes works great BTWQuote:
Originally Posted by mtskibum16
if you got very small holes in a puffy that leak feathers dab a little clear nailpolich or liquid bandage over the hole will stop you from leaking
Fo big holes tape the inside with masking tape and AQS over the hole from the outside, I would use some masking tape, get it inside the hole with tweezers and stick the edges down so they are even, or for a bigger hole if you can color the backing with a sharpie it will be less noticable, not too much aqs over that, cover with some plastic, clamp or put weight on the area to get a smooth finish and it would be bomber for sure
here is a patch I did a number of years ago I think it was a spark hole on the collar of a Sierra Designs puffy about 1/2" long, its not one of my better finished jobs but it IS bomber, a piece of plastic and some weight would have made a better finish to the AQS but this pict is from before I learned that
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So just looked closer. It’s right on a stitch line unfortunately so probably harder to get a good tape backing. Hmm. I know your thread is anti stitching, but thinking some fine black thread to pull it together then AQS to seal it up and give it a permanent bond. Plus being a burn we lost some material so no clean lines to tape.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
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yeah i also lost material on my pict above but not as much as you, that is a big fucking hole !
you could get tape in there to stick next to the seam, it only has to stick long enough to do the repair
another thing to consider is cut a piece of nylon material larger than the hole, get it lined up/flat behind the hole
, apply the AQS cover with plastic and weight it down
Tried to fix my own fucking gear, but I didn't do a great job. Blew the crotch out in my Dakine bibs mid kick-turn. Warranty says I'll get a new pair in mid Feb. Needless to say, my repair didn't hold (lasted about 2 hours). Any suggestions on how to repair my repair? I was pretty liberal with my first application, knowing it would need to take on a lot of stress. Crotch seems like a tough spot...
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Original rip
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Post repair rip
wow ! if you did that in a kickturn I gotta wonder if the bibs were too samll for you ?
Duno what else you can do it looks like you did the right things,
it looks like you used the dryer sheet backing ?
crotch is a tough job, i sent a delamed crotch into arcterxy
and fortunaltey they gave me a credit
These bibs have a weird tension in the crotch area - it appears they "fixed" this problem with this year's model by adding some stretch. We'll see come Feb as they are sending a new pair. I might just tape er up and call it extra ventilation for the next couple of weeks.
How's AQS working to fix deep scratches (not going all the way through) in leather? My FTP lobster gloves took a bit of a beating when I cratered into a stand of pines last week and got hung up on branches and I don't want them to fall apart. Fuckers kept my hands toasty on a -25F windy day on the ice, I will never let them go.
that ^^ makes more sense, yeah whatever gets you thru to FebQuote:
Originally Posted by bthomson22
yeah I fixed a deep cut in a Blundstone ( pict on page 2 ) AQS sticks to leather shoes/ plastic tele boots/ naugahyde bikes seats/ and will double the life of ski or bike glovesQuote:
Originally Posted by Boissal
you could dab some AQS in the cut on your leatehr glove with a toothpick and tape the edges shut
when you see leatehr gloves starting to wear from use add a layer of AQS BEFORE you got a hole is way easier than having to back the hole and fix with AQS
Sweet, thanks, going to get on this tonight once the 2nd layer of snoseal has fully dried!Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I want the AQS to stick to the leather so I always do the fix first and the snow seal second
Well fix done. Not the best looking but it's back up and running. I ended up just pulling the side together with a few light stitches. There was nearly 1/2" of material gone in places so ended up with some wrinkles, but it will work. I think I was a bit heavy handed with the quantity of AQS (actually shoe goo). You mentioned it before but what's the trick to make it matte finish?Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
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Shoo goo is fine, Its fixed so good enough, now take some AQS on a rag, rub it on the shinny AQS and it should give you a matt finish
Melted a puffy jacket on my camper furnace exhaust.
Sewed ripstop patches and sealed the seams with fucking aquaseal, eh.
looks vaugley phallic
next year all of the Arcterxy puffy's will come with that pattern
So...i fell on a beaver punji stick while fishing today
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Kinda lucky i don’t have another poopshoot now
I have some patch material that came with the waders...is this something aquaseal can secure & waterproof?
"It was a million to one shot, doc."Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
I’ll have to take a look thru this thread. More annoying than anything else but it’s the 3rd or 4th Arc’teryx jacket this happened to and I’ve sealed it with AQS or shoe goo or something to limited success:
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0e07e923cd.jpg
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Send that shit back to Arcteryx
Yup. They'll fix it right back up. It may take awhile... so send it now. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by tuco
Patagonia isn’t accepting repairs during covfefe. Customer service rep recommended repairing with fabric patch on outside bedded in AS, extending the AS a little outside the perimeter of the fabric patch.
Sounds messier looking than locating it on the inside, but they said it would wear better.
Is Saran Wrap a decent bond breaker for the back side of the repair?
Any tips on keeping it clean looking
yup what Tuco said ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by tuco
GF had a Beta with that lower hem ductaped & a broken zipper, she didnt care cuz she found it in her shop, i told her i could get warranty so I sent it thru a retailer bud ... got a new shell.
techniocaly the ductape voids warranty but Arcteryx gave a new jacket anyway and they fixed the hip belt on my KEA 37 ski pack
Inside/outside patch(like fixing a rip in an inflatable raft tube). Use seam tape from the inside, then AQS/patch on outside. Simply mask the around patch area. Don't over goop AQS, set patch, Saran over the top of that and weight it down till cured.Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Thx!
what i would do with that ^^ is tape the edges very carefully togetehr on the OUTSIDE with masking tape, the nicer you line the egdes up the better it will look but on waders no biggy I assumeQuote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
I wipe the area to be repaired with tolulene or acetone to remove body oils and then i would use the AQS on the INSIDE with some kind of backing material that I cut to overlap the hole by at least 1/2 inch on each side of the cut, I use light nylon or patch material from an old dry suit or I found dryer anti static sheets that have been thru the dryer work really well
then I would put a piece of plastic bag over the repair, put something heavy on the area to flatten out the AQS so you don't get a globby messy repair. I have used saran wrap in the past but it ends up stuck in the AQS when you try to pull it off so a plastic bag is preffered
Also, yes you can use plastic on the inside for a backing as well. These repairs were made with homemade seam tape(dryer sheet wetted out w/ AQS). The fabric on these pants are toast. Still, the repairs bought me 4 years of hard abuse. No patch on the outside of the thigh patch and it's still wearing good. The repairs around the pockets are a different story.Attachment 332206
For inside patch, your gonna need plastic bag behind AQS backing material or you very may well glue jacket layers together(waders probably one layer tho) And yes, plastic bag instead of saran.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
yeah you don't wana glue your piece to itself but assuming I can get at the back of a repair ( I always can on 3 player gortex or coated nylon ) after taping the edges togetehr with masking tape I just turn the piece inside out and a suit has to be turned inside out to blow it up with a raft pump so the zippers will hold air
if you fix a piece by patching on the outside you get to see the big boo boo and all the smoo used to fix it and there is no practical advantage to an outside repair
if you fix a piece by patching on the inside all you see from the outside is a thin black line where a little AQS bleeds thru at the rip, if you did it right the egdes arent going to lift and if its a dark colored piece the repair might be almost invisable at a glance if you taped the edges together perfectly,
On your own ski gear how it looks might be more important to you, we must have 50 company owned drysuits on which i don't worry too much about how a repair looks so a patch might go inside or outside it doesnt matter, same with suits sent in for service by fire dept and SAR organizations, the looks are not important ... being water tight is
Tuco & xxx-er, thank you for the detailed info...much appreciated!
My AS is old, so I went to find more today. Could not find it in 3 places...gonna call REI next. Maybe Amazon Prime. I did find Tenacious Tape, which I figure can be a backer to the AS primary. Overdoing it at the location seems reasonable since it’s high wear & lotta movement.
so your tube of Aqua seal dryed up and you are having trouble buying more ?Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
AQS, seam grip, seam sealer, freesole, shoo goo if you check the label you will find its all Liquid Ureathane sold in different consistencies for the app ... thicker for building up shoe soles or thinner for seamsealing
Liquid Ureathane lasts forever if you don't puncture the tube but once its open I store it in a sealed jar in the freezer, to thaw for use put the tube in a cup of boiling water for 10min
yeah, it was stored in the basement, dry & temp stable, but not freezer quality dry