Some of you may remember my thread from a month or so ago about delams… well…
This is gonna sound stupid, but would it be possible to carefully remove the entire deck in sections or as a whole or however, fix all of the foam, cover the deck with resin and put the deck glass back on, then weight with many sandbags?
if your gonna take it all off …put new back on not the same old shit.
Well it’s my freinds board, so I dunno about putting new cloth on. Maybe i could convince him to sell it to me, cause i dont care how it looks.
But if I do this with the old glass, would it be a sound board? Is it possible to do what I said earlier, or do I have to put new glass on
I did this once, but never again. My original idea was to preserve graphics on the deck of a semi-restoration. The board was 7’6", and I cut out a 48" section just inside the lap line. I routered out the rotten foam down to about 1", and filled with a foaming urethane mixture (expands 4X). I then planed this down level and block sanded. Took a piece of mat cloth , over-staturated it with pigmented lam resin, and put the deck back down with tape and sand bags. Trimmed off the mat that was hanging out, filled the gap where the cut line was, and laminated a piece of 6 oz. over the whole thing. A ton of work; needed to make a router track to remove the bad foam, had to fill the urethane foam (cures with a million holes from the foaming action) , etc. More work than completely glassing a board from scratch. The new deck was very solid though. The main thing to do is access whether you should repair the board. Once you have a piece of the deck off, blow across the exposed foam. If it looks like it’s snowing, forget it. If you’re just trying to squeeze more life out it, it won’t be worth the expense or time.
I fixed a delam deck once and used some mat cloth as part of the repair… while very solid, it added too much weight to the board, I wouldn’t do that again (unless it was maybe a very small delam on an already-heavy tanker…)
depends on tje size of the delam, i suppose and the cutting tool you have to cut the glass.
just did a delam repair on a board that had been given the falsa (false balsa) look by an artist friend of mine (luther jr.) a few years ago, so i wanted to preserve, as much as possible the look of the board.
delam was about the size of a football long and 6-8 inches wider.
cut out the delammed glass and scraped the inside as clean as i could. put it aside for the moment.
scraped out the dead foam and smoothed out the solid foam left under it. wet it with lam resin and set the chunk of delammed glass back on it. weighted it down (bag o’ sand). after that removed any dripped over resin, and sanded the area. laid a piece of 4 oz on it and laminated over and outside of the delammed area. sanding coat. sanded. teflon’d it. wax’d and rode.
repair was solid. would have LOOKED a lot better with a cutting tool that would’ve made a finer cut between the solid area of the board and the delam. next one i’ll try the diamond wheel cutter on a dremel instead of a semi-sharp knife.
so it can be done that way. for a single delam. but for the whole deck of a board…???
Well I guess from the sound of this theres no way to really fix it without giving it a new deck, so maybe I’ll try to do that. Thanks.