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Can someone tell me the best way to get rid of all the water in a bladder without unscrewing the inflater hose?
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inflate and hang it so it drains either into the corrugated hose or to the butt dump. Periodically purge it and add more air. "Drying it out" can be a few day process, or longer.....
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You'll never get it all out. This is what I do, inflate the wing hold upside down shake water to exhaust elbow end and depress inflator this will get most of it out. If you then inflate again leave for a bit and repeat, do this a few times and you'll get most of it. I find on my wing when during this method the inflator seems to expel water better than rear dump YMMV. As long as you rinse the bladder properly i.e flush it a few times with fresh water a little bit of moisture inside won't hurt it. I know some folk use, non alcohol based, sterilizing agents if storing wing for an extended period as thus will inhibited bacteria growth. I've never bothered, just a good few fresh water flushes and a few days to air dry as much as possible and then store partially inflated.
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Use the rear dump valve (either by pulling it, either by unscrewing it).
If it is assembled with the tanks (I hardly disassemble the wing-doubles set) you will need to put it on a chair, mostly for convenience.
If it is disassembled (i.e. no tank attached) it should be farely easy to lift the wing and pull the valve.
However, if it is a horseshoe (rather than donut) wing, you might to have water trapped in both ends. So you need to get all of it next to the valve.
If you dump the water out, just pay attention to have no silt or other smaller objects stuck in the valve (or inflator) after the operation.
As regards anti-moisture products, you might want to use them if you store the wing aside for a longer period (never happened to me)
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If it is assembled with the tanks (I hardly disassemble the wing-doubles set) you will need to put it on a chair, mostly for convenience.
If it is disassembled (i.e. no tank attached) it should be farely easy to lift the wing and pull the valve.
However, if it is a horseshoe (rather than donut) wing, you might to have water trapped in both ends. So you need to get all of it next to the valve.
If you dump the water out, just pay attention to have no silt or other smaller objects stuck in the valve (or inflator) after the operation.
As regards anti-moisture products, you might want to use them if you store the wing aside for a longer period (never happened to me)
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You can inflate the wing and remove the water through the dump valve or the inflator. It is much easier to work with an inflated wing. You may have to do this several times.
To actually clean and prepare wings for storage this is the procedure I use. Unscrew the dump valve and dunk the entire wing. Place the nozzle of the hose in the opening to thoroughly rinse the inside of the bladder and hang to dry. Be sure to hold the wing upside down and purge the inflator with fresh water during this process. Replace the dump valve, manually inflate the wing and remove any residual water. Lastly, it is important to partially inflate the wing to prevent the bladder from adhering to itself during storage. Hope this helps.
To actually clean and prepare wings for storage this is the procedure I use. Unscrew the dump valve and dunk the entire wing. Place the nozzle of the hose in the opening to thoroughly rinse the inside of the bladder and hang to dry. Be sure to hold the wing upside down and purge the inflator with fresh water during this process. Replace the dump valve, manually inflate the wing and remove any residual water. Lastly, it is important to partially inflate the wing to prevent the bladder from adhering to itself during storage. Hope this helps.
cool_hardware52
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There is *zero* reason to remove any of the fittings from wings. You won't ever get all the water out and you *greatly* increase the chances of losing parts of the fittings, pinching or rolling the sealing grommet or even breaking the fittings from over torquing them on reassembly.
Leave the fittings alone, blow what water you can and inflate the wing ~50-90% for storage.
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I completely support your recommendation. I prefaced my description by stating "this is the procedure I use", but obviously I will be more careful when doling out advice on SB in the future. Considering you are associated with a wing manufacturer, you have a vested interest in people NOT disassembling their equipment and potentially screwing it up in the process. One could very easily cross thread the retainer ring during assembly if not careful. However when prepping equipment for the next excruciatingly long winter layoff I will continue to maintain my wings as always. I just won't tell anybody about it! Cheers.
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