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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 or 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 Wind Rider Triamaran Escape Captiva Laser Pico Hobie Cat Club Wave

This is NOT the time to wonder about your repair.

Quit making temporary repairs

You may have tried to use different methods to repair your kayak or canoe using some creative techniqes. Tecniques 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) (sandwiches are for eating... not for kayaks)

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.

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If you have tried a technique that is not listed,
email it to us and we'll add it to the list.
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Here is a temporary repair that one of our customers sent in....

Check out how easy it is to repair your canoe or kayak with these easy-to-follow 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 plastic cleaner like our Part Number 1000 - Super Clean Plastic Cleaner to remove any sovlent soluble contaminants. Realign the plastic if is has overlapped itself.
Step 2 - To maximize the strength of the repair, it helps to put a v-groove in the crack. There are two ways you can do this. The quickest way is with a Dremel® tool with a teardrop shaped tip. If you don't have a Dremel, you can melt in a v-groove with your KC Welder. Just turn the welder at an angle and run it down the length of the crack.
Step 3 - Using the KC Welder, melt off a "chunk" of the rod into the V-groove. Once the melted pastic rod is applied, make sure to melt it together with the plastic that is already there. This is a slow process. Allow time for the heat to penetrate the existing plastic and stir the melted rod with the melted kayak (or canoe) plastic. Work small areas at a time. Do not rush the job or you will not get good intermixing of the rod and the substrate.
Step 4 - Smooth out the repair and you're done.

That's how easy it is to repair your cracked canoe or cracked kayak with the KC Welder and the KC Welder Pro.

Kayak Welder Testimonial

WARNING: Your repair may fail!

Now, I'd like to share some important information about kayaks that are cracked to the edge. Normally, cracks to the edge are much more difficult to repair. You see, when polythylene gets cracked and repaired, polyethylene will more than likely crack in the same place that was repaired. Here's why. Even though you have melted the rod into the base material, there is some discontinuity in the long molecular chains that make up the plastic.

The KC Welder won't let you down

Each KC Welder and KC Welder Pro includes some stainless steel reinforcing wire mesh. Using the welder, you can melt the stainless steel reinforcing wire mesh down into the plastic. It's like putting rebar in concrete! Here is how it works...

Cut a piece of mesh to span the crack about 1 inch (2.5cm) on each side. Using the tip of the welder, simply (but slowly) melt the wire mesh into the plastic. Once the mesh is buried into the plastic, you can go over it with filler rod.

Plenty of Colors to Choose From

After you add the KC Welder to your shopping cart, you will be asked to choose the color.

Black	Blue	Dark Green
Orange	Red	Yellow
	Natural

For Your Information...
Once you add the KC Welder or KC Welder Pro to your shopping cart you will be asked to select the color you need.

It's time to decide

Do you trust your temporary repairs when your going over Class 5 rapids? It's a no brainer. Your real decision is whether or not to buy the KC Welder or the KC Welder Pro. Use this comparison chart to make your decision.

Canadian customers. Avoid duties and order from our Canadian supplier of KC Welders. Auto Chem (450) 654-9292
Feature	KC Welder	KC Welder Pro
Heating Element	40 watt	80 watt
Stainless Steel Reinforcing Mesh
Special Tip For Easy Welding
Number of Repair Bundles	1 bundle	2 bundles
Price	$49.95	$59.95

Just need rod?

Each rod is 10 inches (25.4 cm) long and there are 6 of them in a bundle for a total of 5 feet (1.3 m) of rod per bundle.

Black $8.50	Blue $8.50	Dark Green $8.50
Orange $8.50	Red $8.50	Yellow $8.50
	Natural $8.50

 

 

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