Old kites...what to do with them? Anyone want them to make..

FabsPH · **Joined:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:57 pm **Posts:** 522

I got a butt load of old , ripped, broken kites.
Is there someone locally (Oahu, Hawaii) who wants them?
Maybe I can get a bag or a wind breaker out of it.
Also, some bladders might still be useful .
Got: GK, North, SS, Kitesurfer, SOFX

I get a count and pix if someone is interested.
Need to clean out the graveyard under my house.

Caesar · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:11 pm

FabsPH wrote:

I got a butt load of old , ripped, broken kites.
Is there someone locally (Oahu, Hawaii) who wants them?
Maybe I can get a bag or a wind breaker out of it.
Also, some bladders might still be useful .
Got: GK, North, SS, Kitesurfer, SOFX

I get a count and pix if someone is interested.
Need to clean out the graveyard under my house.

Hi,

I have one old and ripped kite here which I use only to give to people to learn securing and rescuing kites.
You don't want to do that exercise with a "good" kite since that will be most likely damaged if that person never rescued a kite before.
The LE has to be ok.

Cheers
Caesar

PS: Edited spellings...

Arcsrule · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:24 pm

Send PUMP ME UP and email for his advice. old foil kites are never thrown away. they usually resell and never less that half of their new price. foils are easily repaired to as new condition :thumb:

Caesar · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:32 pm

Arcsrule wrote:

Send PUMP ME UP and email for his advice. old foil kites are never thrown away. they usually resell and never less that half of their new price. foils are easily repaired to as new condition :thumb:

hahaha, you made my Sunday. :lol:

acctx · **Joined:** Fri May 27, 2011 2:37 pm **Posts:** 239

FabsPH wrote:

I got a butt load of old , ripped, broken kites.
Is there someone locally (Oahu, Hawaii) who wants them?
Maybe I can get a bag or a wind breaker out of it.
Also, some bladders might still be useful .
Got: GK, North, SS, Kitesurfer, SOFX

I get a count and pix if someone is interested.
Need to clean out the graveyard under my house.

you can make sandbags out of them

aleckorver · **Joined:** Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:07 am **Posts:** 23

Hey, I will take them regardless of condition. I am not local but can pay for shipping. I am looking for kites that I can experiment different screen printing techniques on, in hopes of finding ways to do cost effective custom graphics on kites. For obvious reasons I do not want to do this to functioning kites.... There is some potential that I could ruin the canopy or bleed color etc... Thanks

droffats · **Joined:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:39 am **Posts:** 448

I will take them as well and pay for shipping. For me, I have an inexpensive seamstress turn them into changing ponchos.

Let me know.

Thanks,
Stafford
414-520-1493
kiteboardmilwauke.com

JMF · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:47 pm

Recycle them at Caution. I know they had a program where they were recycling old kites for discounts on new ones.

http://www.cautionkites.com/green/

http://www.thekiteboarder.com/2010/01/s ... old-kites/

tomatkins · **Joined:** Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:53 pm **Posts:** 794

If you could make them more UV resistant, then, there would be a lot that you could do with them, like making them into self-standing items (beach shade shelters, hot tub rain umbrellas, hammocks, etc)...but the material of modern kites really deteriorates fast... so you are limited to indoor items, like things, like _______, or a net for your indoor golf driving range, that would give your wife grounds for divorce.

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