How do you repair a punctured football?

Father Faff
Father Faff Posts: 1,176
edited April 2008 in The Crudcatcher
I'm sure everyone has had lots of experience of fixing punctured tyres but is it possible to repair punctured footballs? I got my son a brand new football on Tuesdy. On Wednesday his mate kicked it straight into a hawthorn hedge and it got a thorn in it which has penetrated the "inner tube" as it were. Can the ball be saved?
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    what is a football?

    sorry no idea :(
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  • bikeperson45
    bikeperson45 Posts: 415
    I'm not sure you can. Sportsworld in the Oracale sells them for £2 :D
    Oh yea, testing my eye sight, that says "sorry no idea" right?
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  • Father Faff
    Father Faff Posts: 1,176
    Nick Louse - a football is a kind of spherical slick tyre, a bit like that thing on the front of the Dyson vacuum cleaner that goes round corners. I understand that you don't put them on your bicycle but rather on your feet, hence the term "football", and it was invented by a chap called Dave Beckum.
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  • Father Faff
    Father Faff Posts: 1,176
    I've just had a brainwave - do you think those compressed air puncture repair canisters that inject gunk into MTB tyres and blow them up and seal them at the same time would work?
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  • Cps
    Cps Posts: 356
    squirt in some of that liquid tyre repair stuff


    but a new ball would be cheaper if you don't have any
  • Father Faff
    Father Faff Posts: 1,176
    Yeh, it's bloody annoying. You pay £8.49 for a football that lasts a day and you can't fix the bloody thing for less than it costs. I suppose you are not supposed to kick them into hawthorn hedges!
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