Ok. Stupid me pumped up my wing again at the car park after deflating my wing at the beach. I screwed on the pump hose to the valve but it didnt screw down all the way. Strange I thought? And it wouldnt unscrew either. So anyway I pumped up the leading edge of my Cabrinha X2 wing and managed to unscrew the pump hose to find it had sand inside the fitting! Then remembered the hose end of the pump had in fact gone into the sand when folding up my wing on the sandy beach.
No wonder it was hard to screw on & unscrew.
F@#k I said to myself for not checking first! And sand has probably pumped into the LE bladder!
So now wondering how long it will take before my leading edge bladder is damaged. And wondering if any Cabrinha X2 LE bladders are sold in Australia. So far I havent found a shop that sells them. If this is the case. Then I will have to find a BRAND that does sell & distribute wing parts for their wings in Australia. No good buying a wing or foil that you cannot fix.
So far Neilpryde has failed in regards to buying parts in Australia.
Hoping Cabrinha isnt the same.

eddshep said..
I had a bladder out the other day to repair a hole and noticed sand in there, so I just held the blown up bladder so the valve was the lowest point, pulled the valve down a little more, then tapped the bladder till all the sand made its way to the valve. Opening the valve then blew most of the sand out.
Do that a few times and you should be right :)

Thank you. I basically did that except I didnt take the bladder out so couldnt see if any sand was there. I looked inside the valve after tapping the Leading Edge. So I dont think much sand entered. Will have to look at how to take it out one day.

That's got to be painful.

windfred said..
That's got to be painful.

Kidney stones are probably worse??? I dunno.