so I just finished this board (PU/PE) and on my last wave of its maiden voyage I lost it. High tide made sure that it dropped bottom first onto a pile of rocks. I know what to do with the other terrible dings but not too sure about this one. It’s a big dent, I’m hesitant to fill with only resin and glass because I’ve heard that makes it a weak point. At this point I’m thinking to re stain the foam, and fill in the dead space with glass and resin then feather out and hot coat the area. Any suggestions?
Try using some pour foam to fill it in
Would it come out yellow? Or do they have a kind that’s white? Great idea though
It’s not that deep nor is a high stress area, so just fill it. Tape it off from the edge of the pinline. Mix resin/cabosil to the consistency of toothpaste and add some red pigment. Start with just a little pigment at a time and check the color of the filler by dabbing on the board. When you have it right, catalyze the filler and and spread it over the damage. Save some of the colored filler uncatalyzed if needed for another coat. Pull the tape and let it harden. If there was damage on the other side of the pin line (white part), mix another batch of filler with a small amount of Q-cell (for white) and fill that. When everything is hardened sand it then put the pinline back in with a posca. Laminate over it with 2 layers of 4 oz, hotcoat, feather in the edges of the cloth. Gloss or clear spray. No repair is ever invisible, if you can’t tell from 3 feet away you’ve done well.
Cool thanks petec. I thought this might be a somewhat high stress area since I find myself on the nose a lot. Sounds like a plan to me though since it’s not super deep like you said
Thanks for the help guys. Ended doing what I originally planned. Guess after I cooled down I realized it wasn’t as deep as a originally thought. Gloss coat tomorrow, polish on Monday. Here’s how it came out:
Thats pretty much how I repair all those type dings, and they end up looking the same. I think its plenty strong.
Nice work!
Here’s the final product. After gloss and polish. You can see it from 3 feet, but either way I’m happy
Wow, fantastic looking repair!!!
Looks good to me