How To Fix a Leaky Beach Volleyball Valve 

Valve oil seems to be hard to come by in the USA, for an alternative, check the video description! // Alex

*Sports ball companies hate him! He fixes balls with this easy cheap trick, find out how now!* Awesome tips, wish I'd watched this sooner

Thank you for advice you saved me from buying a basketball 😁

My soccer ball didn't hold air (even for half an hour.. I had to inflate it every half an hour ).. I was planning to buy a new one but fortunately I found your video.. I tried the rubber band method.. it's jus amazingggg..🤩🤩🤩 It's the third day today and my ball is still in the same shape as on day1.. Thanks a ton brother.. 👍👍 Your method is just marvelous.. You have saved my time and money..😊😊

GREAT VIDEO!!! Thank you so much. FYI...Petroleum based lubricants (like WD40, motor oil, bike chain oil, general household oil, etc.) eat and dissolve rubber (both natural and synthetic rubber). If you can't get sports ball valve oil, a natural plant or animal based oil is better. Olive oil, vegetable oil, or even butter. This is also why you should never use a petroleum based leather conditioner on a leather ball, speed bag, etc... It works well on the leather, but will dissolve the latex or rubber bladder. Cheers.

Alex! Your elastic band technique worked a treat! I’ve saved my sons precious Celtic FC soccer ball, his basketball, his size five rugby ball, a mini soccer ball and mini Irish rugby ball. I had a busy afternoon! 😂 I actually used olive oil, since I live in Spain there’s plenty of that! I did enquire this morning about valve oil in the decathlon sports store, here in Seville, and no one didn’t even hear of it! So, for those who have olive oil go for it!! Alex, tack så mycket!

Thanks! just dug up my old Mikasa and it was leaking like there was no valve left, shoved a rubber down it's throat and it's good to go again!

What🤯😍just fixed a bunch of balls of different sports. Thanks for teaching, saved me quite some money

For the past week I had this problem and in this one video it got solved and now it's working properly thank you so much for making this video❤❤

Thx so much! the rubber band worked so well

This is my first time commenting on any video on RU-vid and it's just cause this is an awesome video🔥and the methods worked really well I tried the rubber band method and the cotton bud

Dude, that rubber band fix was genius!...thanks for giving me my 2 NCAA footballs back!

thank you for this info, i was able to fix a tachikara TB-18 weighted ball for setters training.

yay it worked!!! you just saved me from wasting some money because i was about to buy a new one!!! thanks man!

Great idea and it WORKED!!! As a kid I used to use a small nail. Held for sometime. But I used the 1/8" rubber band, lubed the hole and stuck it in slowly like you showed. One week later still holding. You had the longest video, but I preferred your fix. Thanks!!

It helps me a lot Now I have 1 ball, loosing air from around the valve...not from the hole but around the valve

Thx! I had a soccer ball that didn’t hold air anymore. I could hear it leak as I inflated it and within 20 it was flat. I used this method and it worked! Thx!

Thank you, i just fixed two beach volleyballs using your method.

Thank you so so so so much for this video! Brand new x2 Nike strike balls arrived with faulty valves! Both flat within 6 hrs - did this and instantly fixed! Used 100 percent silicone oil so hopefully it helps aha

Great video,I am Gonna Give Now Second Life to my volleyball. Besties from Manchester England

Awesome video, thanks for the advice! You saved my daughter's brand new Jordan ball.

You are a life saver mate thank you so much

It really helped me. Thanks dude

Absolutely fantastic hack. Fixed my Adidas euro 2020 ball.

Awesome! cant wait to try it out! Thank you so Much!

Thanks bro i was fixing it for hours and watched a lot videos but there was no solution but you helped me .❤

Works even in downunder! Thanks heaps :)

Thanks a lot! I fixed my daughters ball yesterday with the third step. I used a thin barbecue stick which I shaped like the back end of an arrow. Repairing valves is not common here in Switzerland!

Thank you so much it worked after the first rubber band I was so scared and thought I had to get a new one

Have a 4 year old Mikasa VLS300. Used a pump with a flexible extension hose. Filled 1cm of the extension with pure olive oil and pumped it in the ball. Worked like a charm! No more leaks.

Thanks for this, very useful. I found you can use mineral oil, valve oil or silicon spray (probably as used for detailing car plastics/rubbers).

I bought a brand new volleyball only to find out the valve was leaking. I was so disappointed till i found this video. The rubber band method was more difficult than i expected (the band kept breaking, etc.) but it did the job. Thanks!

this is a good method I used the the rubber one cause im on phillipines and dont have any of those oil thing and you also dont need to change the valve well thx for making my basketball molten back to life

Thank you. It really works

Just used Singer oil all purpose purpose oil. Im not sure if it breaks rubber. But somehow it worked. I just needed to push it in and out slowly and poof. It stopped leaking. Thanks for this!!

It works perfectly! I didn't know this exist! I used coconut oil to lube the pin and then shoved it inside and it worked! Many thanks to you bro!❤️

Thank you sir I'm very my football valve is repaired thanku sir again........

Stort tack! Precis vad jag behövde =)

Thank you dude

Thanks! I was worried about my almost new ball leaking valve. I used olive oil and worked!

Thank you!!!!

Your rubber band technique worked beautifully to restore my 18 year old Tachikara SV-5W Gold volleyball! And for the record, I used mineral oil which I believe is all that valve oil is. :)

Tried coconut oil didnt work but I didn't leave it over night dud the rubber band thing and that worked thanks! Saved me buying new balls for the kids

Thanks

You just saved me from buying a new ball!! The rubber band method worked perfectly!! ❤️❤️❤️

you genius! thank you

thank u so much this helped

your my hero

Thanks bro it works with water tooo..thanks😄😄

Could not find ball valve lube or even valve replacements. Tried regular lube, does not work and made the leak way worse. Finally used a rubber band and it seems to have stopped the leak. Much thanks for the tip, mikasa game balls aren't cheap.

OMG!! I had a 10 year old Tachikara sv-5ws that I just couldn't bring myself to throw away because I loved it so much. But the valve was hard and brittle and leaking like crazy, and the puncture hole looked too big for a small rubber band to seal it. So I tried the larger rubber bands, but none of them did the trick, and it was taking forever to get them to stay in the hole, but the hole just kept leaking even when the rubber band was inserted. I did this all while the ball was semi-deflated. Finally, on my literal last try, I picked this small brown/beige rubber band and decided that since the hole was too big for it as a single strand, I decided to use the rubber band as is without cutting it, and just twist it in as like a double stranded rubber band. Twisting the rubber band and lubricating it repeatedly with some Evening Primrose Oil that I happened to have on hand, and just stuffing it like a turkey without inserting the needle completely into the hole is what I did. The more lubrication, the easier it went in without needing to penetrate with the needle much. Finally when the rubber band was half way through and only 50% of the loop was sticking out, I decided to lubricate the needle and insert it between the loop strands of the rubber band, and pump away. For the first time, I didn't hear it leaking as I was pumping! The next part was to slowly twist back and forth, in a semi-twist motion, slowly removing the needle, and voila. The ball is pumped like new and its holding all the air for the first time in years!!!! I can't tell you how exhilarated I am to see this. Now my volleyball looks like it has a little loop handle on the outside. Quick tip for this though and for those in fear of the rubber band falling into the volleyball the next time its pumped. If you want to ensure this doesn't happen, instead of clipping the rubber band when your done so you can't see it anymore, I taped it down to the volleyball on the side of the valve with some electric tape. Electric tape is the best because its super adhesive and contours well to various shapes, won't come off in water or rough play, and is pressure sensitive. This way the rubber band will never fall in and you can guage how much of the band you need to reinsert back into the ball should the band ever pop out upon re-inflation. Hope that helps!!

Well I just saved my ball which I thought I'd have to throw away! Thanks!

I did it with sylicon (the one jelly-like for plumbists). Just push a bit inside the valve, then put some tape on top to prevent the pressure from pushing out the sylicon, and let it dry. Rub gently to clean the ball from the sylicon in excess outside the valve. I did 2 months ago, ball is still working. Of course you have to inflate properly the ball beforehand.

it works well to lube the valve with oil with no air in the ball - you can put your pump pin into the ball (with oil on it instead of spit) and allow the ball to deflate through the pin. Slide the pin in and out and get enough oil into the hole and valve. After a bit, repump the ball and test it again.

I was like #420 😎 very informative video, thanks!

Dish detergent can also be used. I think the main reason for most valve failures is that valve has some dust or dirt stuck in it during production process.

thank you, it worked !!1 :)

Top!!!

Any thoughts on using pure vegetable based glycerin (very hard to find sport ball valve oil here)? Walmart has this for very cheap. I saw that the original Mikasa valve oil says it's made of glycerin. And the pure glycerin is not petroleum based (which dissolves rubber).

Not sure if someone has already mentioned but Vaseline seems to work just like the oil. I tried it a couple of different occasions on the same volleyboll and still pretty stable for many days, and I can still pump it up with a bit of Vaseline again at the tip of the valve :)

I got some replacement valves to fix my Mikasa volleyball and they worked good. The valves are hard to find, so I wrote Mikasa and they sent me some for free. Do you know where I could get volleyball replacement valves?

Is the oil the same with the one used for instruments (like saxophone, trombone, etc), 'cause I can't find any result when I search "sports valve oil" in an online shopping app aside from the ones used for trumpets.

Hi. Would a little bit of vaseline work to help seal inside the valve and prevent air from leaking...?

Sir can i do rubber band method in. My nivia spot volly as it is new and leaking air from valve

I have Tachikara ball and the valve broke off in half. The end is inside the ball and rattles around inside. I should have used glycerin on the needle to prevent the valve from braking. I would like to get a Tachikara valve but the company doesn’t sell them anymore. The current valve still holds air so I don’t want to remove the valve fearing I would rip it and not have a new one to install. Do you know company that sells the Tachikara valves? Thanks

I have fixed my ball using this methods thank. Ball was leaking from valve and i have to repump it every 10-15 minutes. Now ball stays inflated for days. No oil. just rubber bands pushed inside with the needle. I wet the valve with water when put the bands instead of oil.

When we use rubber band method. And I know it works but if after some time the air gets leaked so how do I pump the ball again. We need to remove the old rubber or not. Please reply

Just a reminder - whole valves are replaceable. If you can't find where to buy new, transplant one from some punctured ball.

Yes hear the air leak

Would thin slices of a bicycle inner tube be better than a rubber band?

what happens when u stick it in un and wanna pump it up after you’ve put in the rubber band? does it fall in or you can get it out?

Hi, my valve broke into 2 parts during replacement and now it rattles inside the ball like crazy :/ Do you have an idea how to take this part out from the ball?

Hi. How to get the rubber band inside? I accodemtally pushed it while pumpimg air.

Boss should i change my valve of the ball. its still leaking from the valve

I have cocovery soft-grip volley ball with maybe same problem is it count? Cause i don't wanna take risk

Hi, Is it okay for the ball if the valve itself falls inside the ball. It can be fix?

there is a small hole on the side of my valve. will this method still work?

hi, my ball is leaking from the seams? $60 wilson avp ball that I dont wanna trash. any suggestions?

In the rubber band method ( 1st one ) how can i fill the air again?? Pls reply

Yo! i’m trying this on a basketball and when i pull out the air pump thing, the rubber band comes off and then the air starts leaking again. Can you please give me some tips? Do i just have to put the rubber band in the hole more like i’m so confused and honestly pissed that it’s not working. I tried for like 3 hours and nothing came out of it it still doesent work.

You made me save some balls🏐🏀

i have a super tiny puncture about the size of a needle on one of my panels. how would you fix that?

May we use trumpet valve oil? or mineral oil? or atf? or motor oil? or WD40 or ...............

The air was leaking on the sides of the valve, should I still follow this or does it need a valve replacement?

I ain't living in nor near Sweden. Where do I find valve oil online.

What if my ball leaks on the valve area? What should i do to solve it? And thank you 🙌🙌

But wait with the band method can u pump air aswell or not?

can i use other kinds of oil instead of a valve oil?

just tried this with my AFL (aussie rules) ball, seems to be holding after one kick around the park.

En español por favor.. Gracias

what is the brand of the valve oil?

Can i go straight to the rubber band method ???

Did anybody get the aot reference on the volleyball?

Air is coming out from the outer side of the valve, not from the middle hole and this method will not work. How do you fix that? BTW thanks for the video.

What if I pushed the valve all the way inside ? The rubber tiny piece went in 😁 How do I get out back?

I've been using rubber bands around my wallet for years and I've noticed a wide range in the quality of the bands. Is there a specific type of rubber that we should look for?

I need help for stitched ball

Tnx much...i sprayed wd40 in my basketball's leaky valve just now and it seems to hve worked...time will tell..hyuhyu..

is that ball ackerman?

How about a leak at one of the seams? Anyone try fix-flat or anything else?