Has this ever happened to anyone else out there?
I returned home and I unpacked from my recent trip and now I'm ready to take the time to reassemble my float tube; for salt water fishing, but I needed to inflate it first ... so I stuck the inflation nozzle from the air-pump into Boston Valve and ..
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YEP! ... IT SPLIT the plastic Boston Valve.
It was probably a combination of UV rays, heat and too many inserts of the nozzle for inflation ...
I always have a back up Boston Valve .. so I'm never down for too long.
I dissected everything off the failed valve and I re-assembled a Frankenstein Boston Valve from a few not so good valves that I've been saving up ... just for this very opportunity.
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I threaded-in the re-built Frankenstein Boston Valve
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I stuck the inflation nozzle from the air-pump into Boston Valve and
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YUP! ... I'm totally ready for tomorrow's session.
SP Dan
I returned home and I unpacked from my recent trip and now I'm ready to take the time to reassemble my float tube; for salt water fishing, but I needed to inflate it first ... so I stuck the inflation nozzle from the air-pump into Boston Valve and ..
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YEP! ... IT SPLIT the plastic Boston Valve.
It was probably a combination of UV rays, heat and too many inserts of the nozzle for inflation ...
I always have a back up Boston Valve .. so I'm never down for too long.
I dissected everything off the failed valve and I re-assembled a Frankenstein Boston Valve from a few not so good valves that I've been saving up ... just for this very opportunity.
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I threaded-in the re-built Frankenstein Boston Valve
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I stuck the inflation nozzle from the air-pump into Boston Valve and
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YUP! ... I'm totally ready for tomorrow's session.
SP Dan