Strut Valve on my Wainman

pixelpedro · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:07 pm

GregK wrote:

read http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2379180 through to the end, there's so advice about this near the end of that thread.

I'll check it out, tnx.

Erlend M B wrote:

Don't worry. It's not permanent. I forget them all the time. After a while, the valve is back to normal.

Cool! what do you do in the meantime? cause I tries holding it down with my finger really quick, pinching the valve a bit, I wasn't fast enough for neither, so I gave up, and used another kite.

pixelpedro · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:04 pm

KYLakeKiter wrote:

I have had the same problem with my Starkites. You leave the plastic stick in and it deforms the flapper in the valve. Mine got better after inflating them while it was warm and letting the air pressure push back against the flap while the rubber is warmer. I would say above 80 degrees. Sounds crazy but it worked for me. Good luck. I understand how frusterating this is.

dude! you're a freaking genius, I applied some very light heat with a heat gun and a funnel, pumped some air in, and voila! finxed! Holding so far.

Tnx for the observation.

TheJoe · **Joined:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:13 pm **Posts:** 763

pixelpedro wrote:

KYLakeKiter wrote:

I have had the same problem with my Starkites. You leave the plastic stick in and it deforms the flapper in the valve. Mine got better after inflating them while it was warm and letting the air pressure push back against the flap while the rubber is warmer. I would say above 80 degrees. Sounds crazy but it worked for me. Good luck. I understand how frusterating this is.

dude! you're a freaking genius, I applied some very light heat with a heat gun and a funnel, pumped some air in, and voila! finxed! Holding so far.

Tnx for the observation.

I did the same thing with my Wainmans a time or two. You don't have to do anything fancy to fix it. All you have to do is pump them up really hard and the back pressure will force it closed.

pdb1121 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:28 pm **Posts:** 1

I had similiar problems where the ball would get stuck on all my Smoke 2.0 valves. I just pumped it up really tight and they worked. Unfortunately I created a small leak in a valve fighting it before I found this thread.

Strut Valve on my Wainman

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