Hi Oldnbroken, I appreciate your help. What I will do.(when the rain leaves me for a few days is take the gear out into the yard and strip it and inspect the valves and bladders properly. I just figured the valves would be shot (agree completely...they will be shot, warped etc and not going to survi...
thanks> these have been repaired before a few times. the originals had issues if you remember these kits and i think on the 3rd round they had leaks after new valves.
was looking for new bladders for a no hassle restart into kiting.
So its been a while and I dug out my old kites and wanted to get them back flying.
Does anyone know where I could get some replacement bladders and hoses for my 17.5m machine?
I know its been 10 years out of the factory..I just want to fly them again.
Here is a tip for the thick minded such as myself. After spending a day repairing all the valves on your kite bladders because you left your kites in the car too long....... Don't leave one end of the bladder sticking out because you want to inflate it a little to make sure there are no twists in it...