Brain fart... Any one else have one while working???

General Discussion
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I was replacing a leash loop

I’ve taken to using carbon fiber laminated at the tip of the tail; on the bottom and the top, with the loop off the tip, maybe raised a little - I was going to put this one on top at the tip w/glass over for a little protection, as the last one got cracked on the rocks, and a subsequent pull on the leash cause about half the loop to break off.

Anyway, I think I’m all set up, but when I go to flip the board, the carbon-glass(CG) layer is not staying well in place on the foil covered board I use… the board is moving a little and the CG layer on the bottom keeps getting moved around and messed up, which messes w/the top…

Well, I’m starting to loss it… what is going on/wrong… what am I doing… I don’t know what to do… This has never happened to me before… etc. etc. I’m trying to get it set in place w/tape, and the whole mess falls on the floor…

That’s that - I’m done, dirty materials in the trash, clean up, and walk out…

As I’m laying on the floor wondering what went wrong… I realize/remember - And here’s the part that kills me… how did I totally forget this - I use a taped on layer of foil on the bottom before I flip it… Keeps it all nice and tight in place…

So, am I experiencing my first sign of a mental loss/break down, or just being human???

Anyone out there ever space out so completely?

If so please share -

PS - For what it’s worth - all happened completely clean and sober. Been so for 5+ months… Which, in a weird way, adds to my consternation… in the past I’d done steps on boards successfully, and I didn’t remember even doing it.

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Haaaa- so I’m NOT the only one. Whew, vast relief there.

Don’t worry, it’s normal. You have other things going on in your mind too, and one of 'em just kinda crowded it out.

Besides, you don’t tend to remember the things that go right, it’s the screwups that come back to you in the wee hours of the night, when you begin to wonder if you’re on that slippery slope that finishes up with wearing Depends instead of underwear and your underwear instead of your hat.

The bad news is, yes, you are. One of these days your headwear will be sporting a Fruit of the Loom label. But…not quite yet. Relax, have a cuppa coffee and maybe some cod liver oil, which is supposed to help in this situation.

Not that it’s helping me any

cod… whoops, sorry, that’s supposed to be

doc…

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Ah come on Doc - Share some sordid details…

I mean, there I was a glove full of time and money going right in the crapper… That hurts me to my “Cheap ass master” soul… Ha!

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Geez man, that’s nothing! How about kicking off a batch of fairly quick laminating resin and not being able to find the squeegee??? Or worse, forgetting to dust off a fresh shaped blank and squeegeeing it right off the rack and onto the glassing room floor! Talk about a happy shaper walking in there finding me picking the shit out of the deeply dented rail, trying to figure out a way to salvage the blank…

Hell, I was young then!!!

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On board #3, for some reason i put the lam bucket, uncatalysed, on the ground, and went to lay the cloth on the blank. Guess what i kicked over onto the shed floor?? yep, 700mls of lam resin. I had to quickly mix up more, lam the board, then had a tonne of fun pouring MEKP on the floor and mixing it in. I ended up with disc shaped blob of resin complete with bits of dirt and crap in it. Still got it in the shed, dont know why though haha.

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"- Doctor, I’m afraid I’m beginning to have memory troubles…

"- Oh yes? When did you notice that?

“- When did I notice what?..”

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My first and only attempt at a leash loop was on a Shipman Fish. I was prepared , I had instructions, I read all the stuff on Sway’s. Less than 5 min into laying up that thing I said “screw this”!!! I grabbed the fin rope/cloth/instructions/ect and threw it all in the trash. I took some clean acetone and cleaned up the tail of the board. I grabbed the phone and made the call. “If you want a leash loop you can come over here and do yourself”…!!!

The next day I installed a leash plug. $1.50 for the plug ,five minutes to install , five min to sand smooth. Board came out great.

I’m a beer drinker. No beer was consumed at the time of this story.

Lesson learned…You want a leash loop…go to Moonlight…they do awesome work. I don’t need the headaches…

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My problem is more like ‘brain constipation.’ Mike

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On board #3, for some reason i put the lam bucket, uncatalysed, on the ground, and went to lay the cloth on the blank. Guess what i kicked over onto the shed floor?? yep, 700mls of lam resin. I had to quickly mix up more, lam the board, then had a tonne of fun pouring MEKP on the floor and mixing it in. I ended up with disc shaped blob of resin complete with bits of dirt and crap in it. Still got it in the shed, dont know why though haha.

thats nothing !!

my glasser when he lived in OZ, bought a new barrel of silmar and forgot to close the tap on the drum fully, he came in the next morning to find 225kg of it on the floor

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Good loyd… And I’m crying over tossing some of my sweet Keith M. carbon tow…

Glad to say, back in the shed last night, and it all went well, peeled of the foil this morning before work… Looks nice. One more lesson for me - having done them prior to finish coat, thus sanding it in… this one being an “after finish” - I should have masked off more of the “finished” area, as the squeeze out from the clamped boards was more than I figured (Having just sanded it down before) - so a little more sanding than I’d planned on.

But, the loop is on top, just a fraction in from the tip, and got 12oz of glass to absorb any shock to the carbon…

Surf reports/predictions suggest I may be able to provide a report next week… Stoke!!!

Thanks for the all the sharing… feeling like a normal part of the family again…

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Wayulll - while I haven’t quite reached the depends stage, I have been known to spend fifteen minutes looking for something I have in my left hand, going to the kitchen for coffee, pouring a cup, adding cream and sugar, stirring well and then walking out of said kitchen, without the coffee, trying to remember what I went there for.

It could be worse…and it almost certainly will be, soon.

doc… when i remember, that is…

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Aahahhhaha… Dang! Well, it ain’t like that - anymore, strange how stopping the “self-medication” has put an end to those 2 hours in the garage going from one thing to the next, then trying to remember how it all started…

Some days are better than others… Looks like a nice west is heading to “the islands…”

Around here… pray for good wind…