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Anyone tried using a puncture repair kit for this?
I'd go with something like Tenacious Tape - wrapped fully round the bladder (assuming you have full access to it.)
Question is, does a puncture kit work?
What's the bladder made of , some of them are not rubber so I wouldn't be sure vulcanising solution is the answer.
If it's a rubber tube then .no reason for it not to.
I would think a Parktools repair kit would work.
Maybe not a glue and patch type.
All the airbeams I've seen are made of a plasticy type stuff.
All the airbeams I’ve seen are made of a plasticy type stuff
This. A traditional vulcanised patch likely wouldn't stick. I assume this us an emergency repair then?
Just trying to get it done today using what I have available, that's all.
Clear gorilla tape / storm sure tape is the way forward.
The only tape that is superior to duct tape.
I bailed someone out once on a campsite with the repair kit for my inflatable boat. Big PVC patches and glue, held up fine.
I'd imagine that even insulating tape would work if you can wrap it around the bladder. It's only holding about 6 psi.
Or try filling it with Stans 🤣
I'd go something like celotape, tubeless tape something non stretchy and adehsive as a patch then gonto town wrapping the whole lot in lecky tape to clamp it down.
If it's a pinhole, maybe a light touch with a hot iron would weld it shut.
Even better if you had some spare material to patch with.
Clueless patches worked for me on a thermarest.
For a pinhole a Park Sticky Patch would work, or Gorilla Clear Repair Tape for bigger repairs
Chewing gum? I reckon the hot glue patches that Therm-a-Rest supply with their basic-style mats would work if you have any lying around. The problem is that AirBeams tend to use a heavy duty plastic rather than rubber, so vulcanising solution ain't going to work.
Plastic pipe cement? It's pretty good on most plastics
Predicrably, spent 20 mins wrestling a giant tube into a bath and found no leak... Thinking maybe there was dirt on the seal.on the plug.