Hey Guys,

Does anybody know were I can get red Dacron adhesive tape/material form, either local Perth or online. I have a small tear on my LE that I want to try to repair myself.

Tried it with normal red ripstop tape on the outside with black dacron tape on the inside, very strong except I have not stitched the ripstop tape. I feel it would not be as hardwaring as Dacron. I have used the kite since and seems to be working.

I have stitched it across the cut and it is strong, then reinforced it with dacron tape on the inside, now just want some dacron on top to seal the deal.

Cheers
Rich

I once had a big leading edge tear which I repaired in a similar fashion. Put the tape on and did a hand sew job....ended up holding forever, but it looked ugly. I fix my boards in similar fashion, they look lumpy and ugly, but the solution is quick and effective.

Kitefix it. Quick & EZY.

Hey Rich,

Kite Fix in Australia is getting more popular, not many know about it but we are making efforts to change that. In regards to search engines, ARSA site has just gone live a few weeks a go and as far as I know search engines can take a while to pick up your site, unless you use adwords etc..

The products great, and I encourage all kite shops to seriously look at it.

Thanks

Joe

You can try Stuart Bell Sails, they used to make all thier prototypes in Perth and had the dacron stickyback in all colours off the roll at 45 carrington st Nedlands.

Ray

richswing said...

Get yourself a pinky/red texta and colour-match that white thread. ^^^

richswing said...

Do you guys recon that it could strong enough? I put on some Kitefix Gluefix just to seal it off and make it a bit more hardwaring, does look as neet though.

Cheers
Rich

Mate, I'd bet that your repair is the strongest part of the kite!

Shot my Bru!

Even where I am from originally they battled to understand me .

Everybody that asks me what sport I do, they think I do karting and wonder why I have a bar and lines out????

Cheers
Rich

PS. Hows the new kite doing?

what are you doing??? if you are in perth you would have to be mad to get a repair done by anyone other than Neil Taylor at Hold the Line. he does the best quality repairs you will ever see!!!! and he is cheap as!!

take it to neil and he will do a much better job. or if you want DIY give him a call cos he is realy friendly and will give you some great advice on how best to fix it.

he prob sells the tape that you are after

i would give you his number but i put my phone throught the wash the other day and have lost all my phone numbers he is on cambridge street in wembley

Getfunky nailed it on the head (Thanks), I always like to try things, at least once just to see if I can do it.

Oh by the way the kite that belongs to the above bar was stolen out my car this evening and I never got to try the bar out .

I know Neil and I respect his work and normally I take my kites to him but like I said I just wanted to try it out. I also wanted to prevent opening up the LE seam for such a small rip that runs across the LE. If it was length ways I would definitely get it done by Neil.

I got some black dacron from Neil which I used on the inside.

The time it took to repair the kite by hand was around 3 hours, maybe more, normally it would not be cost effective doing it myself but at the moment I have alot of time during my kids sleeps to do projects like this.

I mean no offense to anybody.

Cheers
Rich