I need a watertight solution!

[mdharris68]

Does any one out there have a good fix for holes in neoprene waders? Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Haggis]

Have you tried an inner tube patch? Of the sort now sold for fixing bicycle tires.

[Bearfootfarm]

http://www.artsnflies.com/pages3/articles/waders3.shtml

This has several options

[NJ Rich]

Try a product called Shoo-Goo or Super Goo made by Adcor Products, Orange, California 92868.

I have repaired sneakers, work boots; rubber boots and nail pouches. One thing I do to insure a good bond is to lightly clean the area to be patched with alcohol. Make sure it is completely dry before applying the material.

I wore a hole through the toe of a fairly new pair of work boots while doing partition layouts on concrete floors. On Friday evening I cleaned the area with alcohol then I put a plastic Zip Loc bag with a rolled up pair of socks inside into the toe of the boot. The plastic bag won't stick to the patch and can be peeled off easily. When it was dry I put on a thin coat of the material. The next morning it was set I could actually sand the high spots down. I put on one or two more coats over the weekend. By Monday morning I was able to wear them to work. I did the same thing to a leather nail pouch to repair a hole caused by carrying tools in it.

[travlnusa]

Buy an replacement inner tube. Buy some epoxy.

Cut your patch, mix your epoxy, and live dry ever after.

[hunter63]

All that stuff works for a while, but in the long run, they will still leak, particularly neoprene.
You can mess around with all that patch stuff, but if you want to stay dry and warm, buy a new pair.
The old rubber ones you could patch pretty well for a while, but the newer ones are a pain to try to seal up.

[foxtrapper]

A large part of the answer depends on where the hole is.

A stick hole up on the gauntlet is easily fixed with goo and the like because it isn't under stress.

A split seam on the foot is essentially unrepairable because of the flexing and stresses on it. Though I have had some limited success sewing a stressed split seam with floss and then patching it.

[fishhead]

Dive shops carry adhesive for neoprene dive suits. It works pretty good but if it's the crotch seam good luck cause I've never had it hold permanently.

I switched to Stearns Mad Dog waders and the first pair lasted just under 2 years (instead of the normal 1 to 6 months for the other brand) and I sent it back for a free replacement pair. The other brand would give out at the crotch seam in less than a season on my fish farm.

[mdharris68]

Thanks for all of the great suggestions.