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Topic: Cutting the latex wrist gaskets on a Kokatat Angler?  (Read 3032 times)

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Tinker

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  • Location: 42.74°N 124.5°W
  • Date Registered: May 2013
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Went out fishing yesterday and after about an hour, the latex wrist gasket on my casting arm rolled up making a fine, and painful, tourniquet.  Could not get it to flatten out again to save my life.

This hasn't happened before, but I've never been casting as hard or as often before, either, and I think that's why they'd never rolled up on me before now.

Has anyone cut the wrist gaskets for a better fit?  Or was there some operator error involved?
The fish bite twice a day - just before we get here and right after we leave.


rogerdodger

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  • Location: Florence OR
  • Date Registered: Dec 2012
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I trimmed mine back as they were a bit too tight, trimmed about 1/4" each time, tested the suit out, repeated...I ended up with about 1.5" of gasket at each wrist, I can wear my suit all day and during my last self-recovery test/swim, had no water leak in.  cheers, roger
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Tinker

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Thank you, roger.  I wasn't sure if this is one of those gaskets you cut or you stretch.
The fish bite twice a day - just before we get here and right after we leave.


alpalmer

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  • Location: Albany, OR
  • Date Registered: Apr 2012
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try stretching first, then if the seal is still too tight, trim it ONLY a little at a time.   It's easy to go to far.
"A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own,
and no obstacle should be placed in their path;
let them take risk, for God sake, let them get lost, sun burnt, stranded, drowned,
eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches -
that is the right and privilege of any free American."
--Edward Abbey--


 

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