User Review: Ozark Trail Elevated Air Bed - Queen Sized

Reviewed March 23, 2008 by Edward H. Sebesta

Rating: rated 1 of 5 stars

HOW TO FIX THE AIR LEAKS IN YOUR LEAKING OZARK TRAIL BED

The leaks will tend to be on the side you get into the bed. It will be on the inside seam for the ridge around the bed.

I had two beds and they both had a leak in the same general area on the same seam.

The leak will get worse and worse. Fill up the bed with air fully and then lay on it. You will hear air leaking out. Note the general direction. Then site on the side of the bed and run your finger along the seam. At one point you will block the flow and stop the sound.

Also, I was able to see the leaks by close inspection of the seam. NOTE! You may need to push outward the ridge to open up the leak. Also, if you are sitting on the bed, move a little or rock a little and you may hear the leak open and close.

I suppose you could use water to find the leak, but the seam leaks get fairly large and you will be able to hear them in a day.

I tried the patch Ozark gives you. Next to worthless. It will work off within a day. What you need to do is this.

Purchase a flexible glue. I got Power Poxy, Super Crystal Clear Waterproof cement. It is a flexible glue I found at Walgreens. I am sure there are others that will do also. You need to make sure it is a solvent base, very flexible, strong glue.

One one of the leaky beds I just put the glue on the leak. Let it dry for a night, and the next day apply another layer. Since this leak really didn't open unless I was on the leak, it was able to be closed when I applied the glue. I am still testing the bed in my living room. I haven't slept on it overnight.

For the other bed, I put copious glue on the leak, it bubbled, and I put the so-called patch from Ozark Trails on the glue which press the glue into a layer along the seam. I let it dry during a full day.

Last night I slept on it and it didn't lose any pressure.

I still have glue left over for the next leaks. I am going to get wide packing tape and cut squares to make the patch for the glue.

I had also bought bicycle repair patches and I may try them also. Perhaps only on convex surface though.

Some people might think that I should glue the whole seam preemptively, but I am not so sure. The glue may have complications of its own, so for now I will just glue the leaks as I find them.

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