How to prevent the bag from tearing where the hook is attached

A few years back, someone here on zity had one of the best solutions for preventing a bag from tearing where you put the hook at the top of the bag. When you fill your bag to the brim, it puts a lot of weight and tension on the hook hole at the top of the bag. There is a way to reinforce the bag so tearing never happens and your bag will never have to be replaced because it tore at the hook hole.

So here is how you do it and it is very simple to do. You will need a few items that you can get at a hardware store or Home Depot.

Two rubber washers, a bolt and 2 nuts and a spring link hook.

Check out my profile and in the gallery. I have posted 3 pics that shows what it looks like when assembled. Trying to explain how to assemble it might be confusing so just look at the pics and you'll easily see how to put it together.

I have had this one-gallon silicone bag for over 5 years, and it has never had any issues with the hole tearing. The bag is still like new, and I really don't see ever having to replace it.

I posted about my sub repairing one of our red bags before it spring a leak. Here is my post https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=1140125

Not quite on-topic, but some yeas ago I bought a Seamless Nearkid fountain bag from a ripoff eBay seller. The bag was fine, but the hanging area was completely crispy and hence useless. I never got a penny of my ca $400 back.

AFAIK there is no possible way of really fixing this problem.

My old Davol bag tore where the hole was - so I used a paper punch to punch a new hole below where the old one was in the thicker part of the rubber. I then cut off the ripped top of the tab where the hole was. That worked well and lasted for a long time, but being a “purist" that change took something away from the classic look of my enema bag, as it no longer had the tab that sticks up. What I might have done was to have made the new hole in the thick rubber before original hole developed a tear.

Not quite on-topic, but some yeas ago I bought a Seamless Nearkid fountain bag from a ripoff eBay seller. The bag was fine, but the hanging area was completely crispy and hence useless. I never got a penny of my ca $400 back.

AFAIK there is no possible way of really fixing this problem.

You might be able to reinforce it by gluing a piece of rubber over that area but it would certainly ruin the look of the bag

I had that problem some years ago. I fixed it by using a large tire patch. Drilled out for a hanger, and it worked great.

@tarragon, I did the same repair to my wife's first thin bag. Works great!

See the photos I posted on how to repair the rubber tags you hang your bag from. The two bags I repaired used the 3/8” grommet and the web site to get the repair kit is: http://www.generaltools.com

You can buy some aluminum flashing at hardware store and fold it over the hook area and pop rivet the 2 sides together and drill a new hole for the hook.

You can buy some aluminum flashing at hardware store and fold it over the hook area and pop rivet the 2 sides together and drill a new hole for the hook.

This is similar to how my sub fixed his bag. Two pieces of thin metal, one on each side, then small screws to keep the two pieces together to become one.