uince81
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I'm grieving... It's a process. Will my kite come back to normal?
Hi,
It's a sad day... yesterday my first kite, 12 days old (!!) ... got chewed by two F*** dogs....
It as as a 5 cm hole now... do you think that if I have it repeared will fly as normal???
It is a Ozone IMP quattro 3.5.
... I'm grieving today... it's a process...
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B-Roc
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If you have it professionally repaired, it will fly as good as new. Where is the damage, you may be able to fix it yourself with proper tapes or sail
repair glues.
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burritobandit
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A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine 
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I've got a couple of little 2" rips in the wingtips of my 5m ace, guess I'll fix them sometime, but in the meantime it flies just fine... I take
better care of my better kites, but I've had to fix a coupe minor rips.
5 cm sounds minor, really, even if it is a ragged hole over over a rib very careful sailtape job can fix it fine. 5" might be possible to fix with
sailtape, but then you'll need to take care with it and check it lots. Any bigger than 6" yes you'll need stitching.
fixed bridles, flying static, been two years now... ??? folks must be wondering....
sting 1.7, dp power 2.5, crossfire 3.2, ace 5, blade iv 6.5, ace 8, ace 12...
also a couple of arcs, 12 syn and 12 phanny, but i\'m not yet up to speed on them.
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two words... pepper spray!! (loose/wild dog of course)
There are way to many nasty dogs around here... lots of pitbulls! Strays around here are really bad news... especially if they are near my kites!!!
I would send it off for repair... and have the dog's owner pay for it! That would make me sooooo mad! 
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uince81
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Unfortunately I checked the kite after the attack and I didn't see the scratch.. when I launched it and noticed it the owner was long gone 
And now maybe I will have to stay 2 weeks without flying!!!
Any way...
I'm in a good mood... my first board is on is way!!! a Silver reef series 2 :D :D
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| Quote: | Originally posted by burritobandit
A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine |
Where was the dog buried?:ticking:
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BeamerBob
| Quote: | Originally posted by burritobandit
A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine |
Where was the dog buried?:ticking: |
Downhill is fun... wear pads tho, i learned that pretty quick... :roll:
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