Hi,
I've just bought a used wainman hawaii smoke.When I inflated it I found on the surface of the kite 4-5 very small 2-3mm holes.
What do you think?Do you think they'll get bigger?Is it better I fix them?How?
Thanks
Giacomo

Yup fix em up! Remember if you buy some of that sail tape to cut it in a circle so no flayed edges develop!

small holes + time + use = eventual tear from LE to TE.
tape em up.

any sail repair shops near you will have them, chandlerys might, heck windusrfing / kitesurfing shops should stock it too...

if you only get a small bit you can probs get it free from your local repair place if they have off cuts lying about.

suface2air said...

Any one know a link or site too buy sail tape from just after some clear stuff for the emergencey time. cant get it around here so got to go to the internet .

Hey S2A i know steve from Kitepower has put a link to one of his products, but the kitefix kit he stocks is unreal for repairs.
I pretty much trashed my kite in Coral Bay at Easter, 1000 km's from my usual repair guy, and I pretty much rebuilt the kite after crashing it at low tide on a bunch of razor sharp finger coral reef.
Ripped from LE to TE .
At $85 it sounds like a lot but if your a way away from a repair shop or can't even get repair tape this will pretty much repair anything!!
P.S. have a 2009 Cab switchblade in cream, so its hard to get tape to colour match, but the kit has about 10 different mesh colours. Result!

if it's just a small hole, ie: less than 2mm or so, i've just put a small blob of kitefix glue in/around the hole without any tape and then it's pretty much invisible.