Fixing a hole….

Does the rain get in?

Okay, it's you overeducated people who always have trouble with the easy stuff. It's only a pillow.

Which means … it's small! Did your excessive amounts of education ever reveal that the ear, of all things, is especially sensitive for the feeling of air rushing against it? What! Never had some schmuck breathe sweet nothings into your ear?

So fill the pillow as full as you can, put a bit of pressure on it, then slowly move your head, ear-side down, over the pillow. Slowly. No, slower, have some patience for crying out loud!

Once you feel the air in your ear, you've located the leak. Of course, once you feel the air in your ear, you might not want to fix the leak. It feels kinda nice….

shove that puppy under water, the whole thing. the leak will soon reveal it's location. sometimes you can just dab a spot of mcnett on them, and poof ! they be fixed.

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Thank you Doug for getting my Beatles reference….

Ok. The listening for whispered sweet nothings just made me lonely.

Peter, you were right about TOTAL immersion…that sucker takes some strength to keep totally underwater when fully inflated. The other bit was inflating it until I thought it would burst…..

So now I did fix a hole where the rain let in….and stopped my mind from wandering…where it will go…..

"and stopped my mind from wandering…where it will go….."

No no, let that mind wander….

I have a lot of practice tracking down a bunch of leaks in old Thermarest pads.

I found the best approach was a bucket of soapy water and a washcloth or sponge. Put a lot of pressure on the inflated pillow and wipe a small section with a lot of soapy water. Then slowly run your hand over the wet soapy section. Looking very carefully, inch by inch. Go slow. It's a tedious, painstaking process. Small holes don't produce big visible bubbles. Sometimes all you notice is just a little something that might be something and then you look closer.

Sometimes it took going over the same section two or three times to find a tiny hole.