30-07-2022, 03:52 PM
(30-07-2022, 11:46 AM)Hugh Barnes Wrote: In the cabriolet, I have replaced the original Float on Air with modern replacements. The problem I have is that one of them doesnt really want to hold air any more and the wife grumbles. Does the Team think I could cut out the original 'puff and plug' inflators with valves form an old inner tube, giving a better seal? If so, what adhesive do you suggest to stick the rubber that I would leave round the base of the valve when cutting it from the tube. I'm not really sure what the material is that the new inflatables are made from...
Something as simple as EvoStick maybe? Probably something I only want to do once and get right first time...
Hello Hugh,
I bought mine from Bryan, some years ago. They were expensive! He told me they are made from the same material as the ‘skirt’ on a hovercraft.
Funnily enough I remember standing under an oak tree at Beaulieu with Bryan. I didn’t know it was him at the time. It was chucking it down with rain and I had to listen this chap going on and on about a definitive Austin Seven book he was working on — must have been 1987/8 as his Source Book was published shortly afterwards.
Charles