First of all, God bless all of you who freely contribute your knowledge and experiece. After 20+ years surfing, I’m finally in the process of completing my first board. With lots of help from Swayloc’s, I just finished laminating my board, but now I’m worried about the leash plug. I used one of those under the glass plugs, but used catalyzed sanding resin instead of laminating resin. I checked the leftover resin in the bucket a while ago and it seems too chalky. I also read that laminating resin is the way to go. Should I try to remove the leash plug and reinstall using laminating resin and less cabosil, or just wait and see what happens?
By the way, I get bummed seeing my beautiful, glowing charcoal go to waste when I’m done with the barbeque. After grilling some burgers tonight I pushed all the coals to one side, added wood chips and smoked up some salmon. Worked real nice and got a two for one deal from the coals.
If you are under the cloth, that will help somewhat. You should have used laminating resin, but too late now. If it rips out, you had to replace it anyway!
Hopefully, enough of the wax rose to the surface anyway. If not, hope you are a strong swimmwer! Leashes are just a crutch anyway
Thanks. I dunno, I’m obsessing over doing it the right way so I think I’ll extract the plug. Swimming aint my thang. Besides, I just learned I should’ve sanded the plug too. So looks like my chances of having it pop out this winter are pretty good.
The sanding resin is around the plug, and the lam resin / cloth is over the top of it. The only reason to use lam resin when installing embeds (glass-in leash plugs, finboxes, etc) in the blank is so that the lamination going over it sticks to the exposed resin around the embed. I would assume that the perimeter of resin around the leash plug is less than 1/16", and that the plug is firmly bonded into the blank, so I don’t think you have any problem. There is little or no bond strength difference between lam or sand resin. All embeds should be throughly wiped with acetone all over including the top. Most leash plugs and finboxes have mold release on them and this must be removed or they will come out.
Howzit wbrame, Did you sand or wipe the plug with acetone to remove he mold release like Pete said? If so you maybe OK and not need to remove the plug. Alway use lam resin to install leash plugs or fin systems toinsure a good bond. I accidently used sandingresin once on a FCS plug installand the plugs wiggled and I removed hem and reinstalled them,but those were FCS plugs not a leash plug. If the plug is loose hen reinstall but if not thn leave it as is. Aloha,Kokua
I'm a backyarder......I've been on Swaylock's for five years......You did nothing wrong....stop stressing out about nonsense.
Lam resin or surfacing resin (hot coat) with proper cat will work out perfect with your leash plug.....yes, it's best to sand the plug or wipe it down with solvent but no one will ever know......
Thanks to everyone for the help! I can’t wait to get this board in water. Just about done.[img_assist|nid=1053738|title=Almost completed first board/5', 9" similar to CI Flyer|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=427]
