Any tips for repairing leaking decoys?
- Thread starter MIKE-SID
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I?ve used shoe glue, hot glue and filling them with canned expanding foam. All with varying degrees of success. How good each glue works seems to depend on the blend of plastic.
Hot glue works well with pellet holes if you drill them out round with a small bit and overfill the hole and flatten out a patch of glue on the outside
Hot glue works well with pellet holes if you drill them out round with a small bit and overfill the hole and flatten out a patch of glue on the outside
patrick mccarthy
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I?ve used JB Weld water or plastic
It?s worked well for me
It?s worked well for me
Michael McCord
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I?ve never had much luck filling cracks. They just seem to keep running. Hot glue or shoe goo are good for shot holes though.
Sandy Allen
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this post reminds me of a hunt with an old farmer/landowner. We were lying down in cornstalks in a picked field. He was having trouble sitting up and hit one of my plastic shells about three feet below the incoming geese dead center. It had more holes than plastic afterward!
Todd Duncan Tennyson
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Go to Home depot and buy a big crayon of 100
5 silicon sealer and a gun to put in in. Turn your waders inside out and dry them and then take rubbing alcohol and a rag and give them a good scrubbing and let them get bone dry.
Thn squirt that stuff on liberally, especially on the seams.
I tried that spray on flex seal stuff thinking it'd save the day, it was a failure.
If you are really in a pinch, you might try wearing a lightweight pair of dryfit waders on underneath the leaking ones. I've done that and it was a success.
5 silicon sealer and a gun to put in in. Turn your waders inside out and dry them and then take rubbing alcohol and a rag and give them a good scrubbing and let them get bone dry.
Thn squirt that stuff on liberally, especially on the seams.
I tried that spray on flex seal stuff thinking it'd save the day, it was a failure.
If you are really in a pinch, you might try wearing a lightweight pair of dryfit waders on underneath the leaking ones. I've done that and it was a success.
Tom Johnson
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Have used the fairly new spray rubber sealer (advertised making a screen door into boat bottom), works on old Herter tenite cracks. Common under a couple names at most hardwares.
roy brewington
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Black 5200 adhesive has held up for me well on a few bigfoot floaters. If cracked drill small hole at each end of crack to stop it from running before applying adhesive.
benp
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I use a plastic welder, melt the plastic where the hole or crack is and then start adding new plastic when it's still warm and tacky.
https://www.harborfreight.com/80-watt-iron-plastic-welding-kit-60662.html
https://www.harborfreight.com/80-watt-iron-plastic-welding-kit-60662.html
william gaynor
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I take pieces of plastic from broken ducks and melt it over a propane torch and apply it to the hole when it is still molten.