Recently i spend the good part of the day driving around researching locations to kite surf. After checking out the third spot and 1hr and a 1/23 away from home. We got all the gear out sand progressed down the beach... my mate started to pump the kite up and after three pumps heard a pop, we kind of didn't know what happened and after a bit notice the side of the pump had split right way up the side. With no success at trying ways to hold the split gap together with both hands and have the other pumping could not get the kite up to enough pressure. tried to manually pump it up with breathing in the value but this was no good... the trip was over.


The tip i'm posting here is that i bought a new pump and it turns out it's the same pump. I have duck taped all the way around the pump and all the way up in the theory that hopefully that helps prevent it spitting up the side again.


I'm not sure how it happened but i think because my mate chipped in to try and help pump the kite up may have pumped faster then i normally do and caused to much pressure in the pump shaft?