On my last dive I discovered a small tear in the neoprene wrist seal of my drysuit. It's an L-shaped tear about a centimeter wide, on the inside of the seal, and it goes down to the outer stretch fabric layer but not all the way down if that makes any sense. In other words, it's tearing into the neoprene seal, but does not go all the way through it. Last night I put a small amount of neoprene cement over it, waited for it to get tacky, and then squeezed all the edges together and rigged up a system to hold everything in place while it dried overnight. This morning I dabbed a little more cement over the entire area.
My question is, will this be enough or should I use some sort of patch to cover the area I repaired? If so, what material should I use? I assume it needs to be stretchy. I can cut a Lycra patch out of an old rashguard or pair of cycling shorts and glue it over the tear, but is that necessary? Or would something like Iron Mend be better? If so, would I iron it on or glue it on, seeing as the tear is on the soft inside part of the seal and not the outer layer of the suit?
My question is, will this be enough or should I use some sort of patch to cover the area I repaired? If so, what material should I use? I assume it needs to be stretchy. I can cut a Lycra patch out of an old rashguard or pair of cycling shorts and glue it over the tear, but is that necessary? Or would something like Iron Mend be better? If so, would I iron it on or glue it on, seeing as the tear is on the soft inside part of the seal and not the outer layer of the suit?
