Using the KC Welder Pro, you can create permanent repairs to your cracked kayak or cracked canoe. This welder comes with everything you need. With the KC Welder, you get a heavy duty 200 watt element with a tip that makes repairs easy, 5ft BLACK Polyethlene weld ribbon, and Stainless steel reinforcing mesh
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Using the Kayak and Canoe, or "KC" Welder Pro, you can create permanent repairs to your cracked kayak or cracked canoe. This kayak repair kit / canoe repair kit comes with everything you need.
With the KC Welder Pro you get:
- A heavy duty 200 watt element with a long cord.
- A welding tip that makes repairs easy.
- 6 sitcks of plastic welding strips in the color that you have chosen.
- Stainless steel reinforcing mesh.
How to Repair Your Kayak or Canoe
Using the KC Welder, you can repair your Pelican® canoe, Coleman® canoe or kayak, quickly and easily.
Using the KC Welder Pro, you can create permanent repairs to your cracked kayak or cracked canoe including...
- Pelican® Canoe Repair
- Coleman® Canoe Repair
- Old Town Canoe Repair
- Dagger Kayak Repair
- Nomad Kayak Repair
- Perception Kayak Repair
- Harmony Kayak Repair
- Anadyr Kayak Repair
- Hobie Kayak Repair
- Wavesport Kayak Repair
- Mad River Kayak Repair
- Liquid Logic Kayak Repair
- Pyranha Kayak Repair
- Necky Kayak Repair
- Wind Rider Triamaran
- Escape Captiva
- Laser Pico
- Hobie Cat Club Wave
- Ocean Kayak
- Coleman Scanoe Repair Kit
Quit making temporary repairs
You may have tried to use different methods to repair your kayak or canoe using some creative techniqes. Techniques like...
- Liquid Nails (it peels off quickly)
- Glue Gun (Doesn't "burn in" well and quickly peels away)
- Rivet an aluminum plate and caulk the edge and hope that it holds. (Gets scraped off from the first rock you go over.)
- Sandwich a piece of rubber between an alumium plate and the kayak with rivets (or screws)
Those techniques you've tried must not have worked, or you wouldn't be looking at this page now. The KC Welder and the KC Welder Pro allow you to do permanent repairs.
Step-by-step Instructions
Step 1
This is a typical crack that you might find on the bottom of a kayak. The first thing you need to do in any plastic repair is to clean the plastic. Use soap and water to remove any water soluble contaminants. Use a spirit cleaner to remove any sovlent soluble contaminants like grease, tar, sticker residue, etc. Realign the plastic if is has overlapped itself.
Step 2
To maximize the strength of the repair, it helps to embed some wire mesh into the plastic. It is similar to putting rebar in concrete. Cut some of the included wire mesh to span the crack about an inch on side. On this particular repair, we had to fold the mesh because the crack was on a corner.
Step 3
Using the KC Welder, melt the wire mesh into the plastic. This is similar to putting rebar in concrete. It makes the repair a lot stronger. Sometimes, the mesh wants to "pop out" of the plastic before the plastic cools. If that happens, use a screwdriver or another tool to hold the mesh into the plastic until the plastic re-solidifies.
Step 4
Here is what it will look like once the mesh has been melted into the plastic.
Step 5
Apply the filler rod by pre-melting one side of the rod.
Step 6
Flip the filler rod over so that the melted side is toward the plastic that you are working on.
Step 7
Cut the tip of the rod off by melting through it with the edge of the welder tip.
Step 8
Spread the melted rod while pushing it through the mesh. You may need to apply an extra layer of rod after pushing it through the mesh. Get the plastic hot enough so that the new melted plastic melts together with the existing plastic.
Step 9
Continue applying plastic until the crack is repaired completely.
Finished
The repair is complete.
