t o b y said...
sorry buddy but its octopus. Your pretty much ****ed.
does one strut go flat but not the others? if so then its prolly that strut.
if none go flat its the leading edge.
if all of them or atleast 2 go flat your one way valves are buggered (the one way valves are useless, they work 20% of the time). In which case its really hard finding where the leak is.
finding the leak is the easy bit of the exercise, getting the leading edge back in is not to hard. Connecting the struts back to the leading edge is rediculously hard. Connecting the struts and having no leaks where they connect is a miracle.
Best bet is to just put the sucker in the bin, its seriously not worth the effort (comming from someone who has done 2 leading edge bladder repairs on naish octopus kites, to then have the kites working sweet only for the valves to peel off!)
Wouldnt touch naish again. Both my kites (06 torch 2's) had construction failure at the zipper (happened on heaps of 06 and even some 07 naish's) which basically meant they were a write off. Unfortunatly i bought over seas on a kiting holiday, neither the local distributor, the distributor in the country i got them from or naish international would help out. I was left with two useless bags of ****.
I recommend everyone to avoid naish now. Hope it costs naish more then it ended up costing me. They deserve it.
Toby's advice is that of an angry man-disregard it.
I tore holes in my strut bladders recently and repaired my self (poorly) and as a result had to repeatedly take the struts on and off-easy!
Naish has a guide on their site to repairing the Octopus system-it is more difficult than a non-one pump system-but it's not rocket science. There's heaps of info out there on how to do it-just do a net search on naish octopus repair.
