I recently purchased a used Normatec MVP system. Subsequently, I found that the right leg does not fill due to a hole in the heel. If I hold the hole closed, it does fill.
Normatec has informed me that it is difficult to repair and does not offer any repair options or advice. Instead, they are offering me a single boot for the same price I bought the system for (not an option I am entertaining).
Has anyone ever repaired a hole in a Normatec or similar boot? A friend has recommended duct tape, but I don’t foresee that as a long term solution.
I’ll preface this by saying I haven’t tried it myself, but it seems to me that you could repair it the same way divers repair holes in drysuits. Go to a dive shop and ask them for some drysuit repair glue.
A few years ago, I bought some Normatecs that had been patched. No issues. Seemed to be the same material as the legs themselves, and glued on. No issues. Sold them to a buddy a couple years ago and haven’t heard any complaints from him.
I recently purchased a used Normatec MVP system. Subsequently, I found that the right leg does not fill due to a hole in the heel. If I hold the hole closed, it does fill.
Normatec has informed me that it is difficult to repair and does not offer any repair options or advice. Instead, they are offering me a single boot for the same price I bought the system for (not an option I am entertaining).
Has anyone ever repaired a hole in a Normatec or similar boot? A friend has recommended duct tape, but I don’t foresee that as a long term solution.
Thank you!
If I may ask, who did you buy the system from and why did you purchase the much older MVP system??? What did you end up paying for it? If I was you I would go back to your seller. It would have been nice if Normatec could have helped out but the boots are far out of warranty as well. They stopped making the MVP in what 2015? Fwiw, the new 2018 Pulse model (not 2016-20127) has even further enhanced durability for the legs backed by an additional year warranty for a total of 2 now.
Tape did not work despite a number of people saying it worked for them.
I wound up using an iron on clothing patch from a craft store (one I had lying around from patching clothes years ago). It has thus far inflated and held through two uses. I’m honestly impressed the patch held at all. I had expected to seek out other materials.
We use our boots once or twice a day at PR Labs in Boulder. When one got a small hole, I came here looking for a solution.
What I ended up doing was getting A Gear Aid Tenacious tape patch. I found them at a big box store for $1.99, there are four in each pack. Two black, two clear.
Tenacious Tape Repair Patches | GEAR AID
Ours has been in place for about a month, no issues. The patch is almost a perfect color match. My only advice is to lay the boot on a flat surface before applying the patch, also wipe clean with rubbing alcohol.
