Postby Foil » Mon Jul 01, 2019 6:03 am
ozone Reo's are exactly the same,
I had to pull my 9mtr apart on holiday to try and fix a slow leak,
My villa had a swimming pool so great for finding pin holes in the main tube, blowing the tube up to shape out revealed no bubbles under water, damm!
then in frustration I blew up the tube much tighter, nearly too much, and tried again, over 16 pin holes bubbling away, each hole I then marked with a marker pen and patched,
gritty sand was the culprit, but getting this out is hard to impossible due to the lip inside under the boston valve.
The answer to this is to make a paper funnel cone shape from a thick glossy magazine page, stick it near the end of a carpet hoover nozzle to create a LITTLE suction, and with the kite bladder blown up tips uppermost boston valve uppermost, the grains of sand will fall into view at the boston valve hole, give the bladder a good few thumps to get the sand into the right place then suck the little buggers out of there with the paper cone, believe me this is the only way I could get the grains out, I was thinking of cutting and end open but then the cone vac idea saved all that messing.
by the way don't miss off the little end retainers which are well hidden in the kite ends, I did, and blew the bladder a few weeks later, bad idea!