I am in the process of buying my first hot tent. Looked at the Circle 2 from Pomoly. Mostly because many other tents are sold out.
Does anybody know what the deal is with the setup ? Is there like a tent pole in the bottom of the tent ? I've not managed to find any tutorials on this.thx for in advance for any answers :)
Hello everybody. I was hoping for a bit of advice on this one. It is regarding repairing a glue / valve malfunction.
Long story short... (Kinda)
I had a glue malfunction where the valve connects to the packraft. This happened on a trip, thankfully close to shore on a lake, so I managed to get to safety without any real problems, other than ending the trip prematurely.
It was a very warm day in Sweden (+35°), so my conclusion has come to that I've might put too much pressure in the raft, and then It got heated up and expanded too much for the glue to hold at the valve.
On picture 2 you can see the exact spot the glue failed. Right at the welding where the valve attaches to the pvc.
I managed to do a field repair with the rep.kit i brought, which contained the glue "Aqauseal". As to my understanding this glue is an emergency solution, and not a permanent one. Therefore I am now in the process of removing the Aqauseal glue, to find a better solution.
But is there even one ?
For the record I have a Nortik Trekraft Expedition. I think I can recall reading some forum back in the day, stating that the glue at the valve on the Nortik rafts, are pretty poorly manufactured from the company, and multiple people have had this happen. I know the raft is on the cheaper end of the spectrum, so a reasonable statement might be "well what did you expect ?".
Still I think it's worth saving. Also because i have heavily modified the raft, and put in quite a lot of hours on it.
My idea was to remove all the old glue, and then repair the leak with something like "Helaplast" from Anfibio, or something called "Polymarine" which is very similar and I've had succes with in the past.
I've also seen people replacing the whole valve on a packraft, and I can see on Anfibio's webpage it is possible to buy a new valve. (A Boston I think. Mine is this lousy one, with this stupid rubber flap inside the valve throat that seals the throat.)
Does anybody have a suggestion for what is best in this situation ?
Any answer is much appreciated ❤️