Description
Description
A dry bag with a cracked buckle cannot close properly, and the webbing on a dry bag is usually sewn into a loop at both ends, so a normal buckle will not thread on. The Gear Aid Dual-Snap Bar Repair Buckle 25mm gets around that. Both halves have a snap bar: open it, pass it through the sewn webbing loop and press it closed. The stitching stays exactly as it came from the factory, and the bag is sealed and back on the kayak in minutes.
What it fixes
This repair buckle is for 25 mm webbing, which Gear Aid call 1 inch, where both ends of the strap are stitched into closed loops.
- Roll-top dry bags and dry sacks, the job it was made for.
- Pack straps and belts with a sewn loop on each side of the buckle.
- Any other 25 mm strap where the old buckle was stitched in at both ends.
Gear Aid make two close relatives. The single Gear Aid Snap Bar Repair Buckle has a snap bar on one half only, with a standard strap slot on the other. If both sides of your old buckle were adjustable, with free strap ends, the Gear Aid Dual Adjust Buckle Kit threads on without any snap bar at all. Measure the webbing flat across before you choose: this buckle suits 25 mm only.
How to use it
- Cut away what is left of the broken buckle, leaving the sewn loops intact.
- Open the snap bar on one half, slide it through one sewn loop and press it closed until it clicks.
- Repeat with the other half on the other loop.
- Clip the buckle together and give it a firm pull to check both bars have seated.
We stock the Dual-Snap Bar because a dry bag is worth keeping. A spare weighs next to nothing in the repair kit on a paddle trip down the Murray or a bikepacking loop through the Victorian high country, and it turns a bag you would have binned into one you keep using.
Looking after it
The buckle is moulded from acetal. After salt water or sand, rinse it in fresh water so grit does not wear the latch arms or jam the snap bars.
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