What to do with useless ball fender ?

[Refueler]

The thread : How do I deflate this fender? ... has me thinking about the useless ball fender I have ... which has this ridiculous double valve.

The threaded part in the ball is faulty and air escapes via the joint of the outer to inner skin whatever I do ... that's IF I can get air past the stupid valve !

I'm wondering if I can fill the fender with something else - ie foam or similar ?

Shame to waste such a ball fender - but if it cannot stay 'inflated' its no use to anyone.

Ideas (I've already considered binning it !) ?????

 

[Muddy32]

kick it into touch?

 

[LittleSister]

By long-standing tradition you should keep it 'just in case'. You never know when you might suddenly need an uninflated ball fender.

 

[LittleSister]

Alternatively, perhaps you could come to some mutually beneficial arrangement with the poster (Irish Rover?) who currently has a thread asking how to deflate a fender.

 

[ducked]

One of those similarly useless tyre inflation kits?

And/or, if you can get it to hold air with some kind of sealant, you could perhaps inject an appropriate amount of diluted grape juice with bakers yeast.

Thought of this as a self-inflating tyre trick but never did anything about it. Need trial and error to get the amounts right for the volume, and overinflation error could be dangerous.

 

[xyachtdave]

Put it next to a marina or yacht club skip and it’ll cease to be a problem for you in under 1/2 an hour

 

[scozzy]

If it's black use it as anchor signal ball?

 

[colind3782]

Put it next to a marina or yacht club skip and it’ll cease to be a problem for you in under 1/2 an hour

I did that with two similarly useless fenders yesterday. It works!

 

[Refueler]

I bought new valves for it .... still same ... then found the two skins were leaking around the valve fitting.

I have had a hard look at this valve design and really cannot see the logic of it ... what's wrong with the old needle valve most use ??

I have liquid PVC specially for repairing dinghys ... I may try some to seal the skins ...