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Question Boot question

Well, after buying my 337G, it is still not home after 2 weeks in the shop. A super-duper inspection was done, and no big item stuff was found to be wrong. But a myriad of smaller things had to be repaired, and it just made sense to have it done when the plane is sitting there in the shop, butt-naked and stripped.

One of the items was that the main boots did not pass the inflation test, because there were more than 10 holes per boot. The shop informed me last week they ran out of patches and had to order in new patches!

Now, I've heard somewhere that one can repair these boots to the point of death, and they will happily continue to work again. But when does one decide the boots have had enough, and need replacement? How does one determine the residual integrity of such a patched-up boot?
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