Thanks ahead for any help…
I just bought a pretty beaten up 7,8 Epoxy Patagonia from Point Blanks. Looks like an older model with the wacky “screw in from the top” fins…
Heres the deal, it need a fair amount of work, the top is delamed on one side and there is a hand size chunk of the foam missing.
Is it ok to use standard qcell filler? Or do I need special epoxy stuff?
I have epoxy resin already from fixing another board and I hope enough glass cloth. But filling that hand size hole that will be the problem. The board is really light weight and thin (2.5 inches thick) so I do not want to throw the nose wieght off by just filling the whole with heavy qcell and epoxy.
I have also been toying with the idea of cutting a piece of closed cell insulation foam or styrne and building qcell up around that.
The board was super cheap, so asthetics are not my top priority, making it water tight is.
Any “heres how I would do its” would be of great use…
Cut out the missing area as square as you can. Then shape a piece of absoultely anything you can find to fit in the hole. I mean it, anything will work.
You can use insulation EPS, blue or pink XPS, Great Stuff foaming spray, a hunk of balsa, white EPS from packaging TV’s or wine bottles or books… You can glue it in with epoxy & q-cell or you can just use polypropylene glue (Gorilla-type) which will also foam up & fill the irregularities…then shape the top & glass over.
Since you’re not trying to hide anything, you can use whatever’s handy. But you definitely do want to pay attention to the weight & don’t add something which will turn relatively solid.
Thanks! Foaming spray cool idea!
I will spot test whatever goes in to make sure the resin wont eat it.
Since this board was(is?) a Patagonia Eco friendlly find, I kind of like the idea of re cycleing cast offs to fix it…
it is glassed with resin research epoxy
The description and picture make me think it might be their Rocket Sled model. Are the “wacky” fins Red-X?
