neat watching things happen and grow from the beginning - miss these days…
**Re: [feraldave] dyneema fibre= delbert/bert where are you?**
Posted: May 18, 2004 -
1:51pm | #6 (permalink) | Back
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I have to
go surf right now, but this is a fun topic that I am involved in as a way of
life. I believe I laminated the first surfboard ever for Spectra Fiber
Co.(Allied Signal) back in the early eighties. Dyneema fiber is the European
equivalent product. I really don't know who made oriented UHMW fiber first.
This is the only reinforcement fiber you will find at this time that is lighter
than water, thus it will float fast if you try to contact laminate it. That's
what happened to me on the first experimental stick. The epoxy just kept
seeming to disappear. Actually the fiber was floating higher and higher. Also
the 2.9oz. Spectra is almost 50% thicker than 6oz. E-glass and almost 3 times
the break strength. I have alot more to say, but the surf is calling. I'll come
back and add more. Love Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [meecrafty] S-core Fin Systems**
Posted: April 30, 200
The engineers at Salomon are
kind of knuckleheads, but the marketers are relentless and do a respectable job
of tricking consumers. The net result of building a board with a Salomon blank
will be a sandwich construction that is basically a Surftech. Only the Salomon
blank is way more expensive and will ding way easier because the xps foam is
lower density and strength than pvc foam in a conventional Surftech style
sandwich. Save your money and build your own sandwiches the ways that Bert and
Greg have described on this site. They'll be way more ding resistant and snap
resistant than a Salomon blank. Heck, Salomon can't even figure out how to
manufacture their own skis and snowboards. Fischer in Austria builds most of
Salomon's skis, and Nidecker in Tunisia builds a big chunk of their snowboards.
I haven't seen the latest rendition, but all the original S-blanks were just
hollowed out blue Dow foam. Salomon just wasn't aware this construction has
existed for twenty-some years already. It's cool that they are igniting some
new passion towards progression though. Love, Delbert de von Pumpernickel
**Re: [MrJ] epoxy allergies**
Posted: April 18, 2004 -
10:31pm | #22 (permalink) | Back to Top
I use
hundreds of gallons of epoxy a day, and have only seen three out of hundreds of
employees get slightly sensitized over the last twenty years. My biggest advice
is to wear cheap cotton gloves inside your vinyl or latex, and be very anal
when taking them off. The most common mistake is to touch your inside wrist
with a sticky thumb. The inside wrist is a gateway to being sensitized. The
cotton absorbs sweat, allowing the glove to slide off easy. Other than that,
everything Greg and Bert said is gospel. Polyester is way way way gnarlier on
your health. Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [Fairmont] Re:solosurfer,hype..**
Posted: April 20, 2004 -
5:46pm | #43 (permalink) | Back to Top
The
Beattles, Stones, Clapton, and Led Zepplin all have one thing in common. Their
music is beautiful and nostalgic to us old people. But the bands are crusty and
fragile and falling apart or are dead. Brittany is downright more sexy, sleek,
and resilient. She's even lighter weight and can do a mean 360 without
breaking. As far as the Toyota Prius, I know girls who would gladly wax in the
back seat of one. As far as being green/environmental in the surf industry, two
boards I'm developing/riding now are 100% recycleable. The construction would
be too spooky for me to explain at this point. On topic though.......I've known
Randy French since the mid-eighties Gorge days. He has developed his company
with very limited self financing, so he wasn't supported by big brother or the
media. He's had to scratch and claw to get the recognition he is now getting.
If he were selling cheap Asian PU boards,I would understand people being
critical/festered. But he's selling products that people really want. And they
pay more to get them. I sell his boards and not one of my customers in the last
four years will buy another polyester board after riding a Surftech. But I'm
from an area with lots of heavy, thick waves. So a little extra durability is
very important. As far as the Thai employees, my next door neighbor is from
there. They love working for Cobra. Someone on this thread said that nobody
would want to trade places with a Cobra employee. To be honest, I'd rather do
that than trade places with a U.S. glass shop employee.......cleaner factory,
proportionately twice the wage, in-factory Thai kitchen on tap, and lots of
stunningly beautiful co-workers. I'm gonna move to Thailand, buy a Toyota
Prius, get a job at Cobra, eat the best, listen to Brittany and surf the wind
chop of Phuckett beach. Love Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [Krokus] Squared Tail Rails**
Posted: May 11, 2004 -
12:27pm | #20 (permalink) | Back to Top
Killer
thread going here! I totally agree with Hackeysaky's and Carl's opinions. The
science of rails is still art after all these years. Funny thing though......in
1983 I was paid to analyze how rails actually function. I was hired by one of
the biggest waterski co.s in the world to develop a stand-sideways thing to use
at 12-20mph behind boats on choppy days. We were two years ahead of Tony Finn's
Skurfer and Jimmy Redmond's Redline, which ended up being the first commercial
wakeboards. The owner didn't like my first prototypes with fins (small
twinnies). He told me to try to eliminate the fins by manipulating the rails. I
cringed at the concept of no Mark Richards influence, but attacked with radical
abandon on the tall stack of bottomless free Clark blanks. Here are some things
I learned, mind you on flat water, but then I tried these concepts on waves:
low, knifey tail rails do gouge deeper and hold way better, as you would
expect. However, water does flow across the tail top and blast your legs with
spray, in extreme cases too much spray. They also were sometimes sticky. With
squared rails the tail had slippery tendencies, but the spray is directed away
from your legs. I built alot of prototypes with assymetrical heel and toe rails
also. Here was my conclusion for the most efficient tail rail........the
"S" rail which is a bit more time consuming than most production
shapers and glassers would prefer to do. Maurice Cole and Stewart have both
been doing a few of these lately. For those who are not familiar with it, the
lower half is thin like a knife, and the top is steep and somewhat boxy. If you
still can't picture it, imagine an "ogee" router bit profile. This
allows bite and quick innitiation, but redirects the water away from the top,
eliminating stickiness. This rail makes it possible to ride slightly wider
tails than normal. Bob Simmons would like that aspect probably. It also allows
a well-fed fellow to have a thicker tail, yet thin responsive rails like pros
use, without a goofy huge dome deck. A really good way for anyone out there to
feel a low thin tail rail; rent the Bic 9'0" . You'll be snickered at
until your first deep gouge bottom turn to roundhouse cutty gouge. The French
dude who shaped the plug did a swell job. And Feraldave.....this is Delbert
speaking.... I have some answers to your Dyneema fiber questions. I'll try to
answer later under that thread. I somehow had the piviledge of building the
first surfboard with UHMW fibers for Spectra Fibers (Allied Signal Co.)back in
84 or 85. It was funny, the fibers floated on the epoxy like a boat. Vac. is a
must with UHMW fibers. Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [HerbSpitzer] Squared Tail Rails**
Posted: May 13, 2004 -
5:50pm | #28 (permalink) | Back to Top
Hey Herb,
I could only land 79% of my floaters and airs back when I was shaping square
tail rails.....................................But now on my "S" rail
tails, I land 81% of my floaters and airs. My rail is 1% better than yours is!
How high can you ollie a 7-ply maple Madrid? My decks......41.25" ollie
world record......switch.....world record..... $10,000 Grindking Reese Forbes Ollie
Challenge..........Alex Bland.....unknown kid..........toys with
pros........goes home with chicks and cash. Progressovision!
............................................................Anyone out there
tried "S" rails? Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [DaleSolomonson] Squared Tail Rails**
Posted: May 15, 2004 -
3:47pm | #35 (permalink) | Back to Top
Ahhhh.....true.
Pro Danny Wainwright won the forward ollie purse at 44.5 inches. But the
following year, unknown kid Alex Bland toyed with pros Danny Wainwright and
Reese Forbes at the Grindking Reese Forbes World Switch Ollie Contest. The
judges made Alex quit ollieing over the bar at 41.25" because he was
making all the pros look bad. This was switch. He wasn't at the contest the
year before. He grew up in the sticks of South Bend, WA and learned to ollie on
gravel in the woods. Kind of a fairy tale for that moment in his life. After
his record ollie, all the ladies in the Long Beach Arena wanted to hump him.
Pros all worshipped him for a day. He's kind of faded into the twilight now. I
had the honor of building his composite skate. ...............But , heck no,
Herb, I don't ever plan on going 60mph errect on a skate. I lost two team
riders to head injuries within a month of each other. Funerals are no fun. Five
other team riders have lost their ability to taste food from head impacts. Thus
I stick to trannies. I have been in Hank Hester's Signal Hill red rocket skate
mobile though. It has a parachute and looks real neat. Back on
point..........anyone out there ever tried "S" rails? I'll try to get
a picture of a Stewart or one of mine. The last one that I shaped with "S'
rails was an assymetrical stick ; 6'2" on toe side, 5'10" on heel
side, two square turbo fins on toe, deep Bobby Owens fin on heel followed by
small normal fin. Worked insane on fast left point breaks . Love Delbert
Pumpernickel
**Re: [HerbSpitzer] Squared Tail Rails**
Posted: May 16, 2004 -
5:47am | #37 (permalink) | Back to Top
The
beauty of the "S" rail is that you can still shape it at any
effective angle that you like. The lower portion that touches the water can be
as square as possible if that is preferred. The upper can also be square. Or
either portion can be tapered and sharper. Infinate combos are yet to be tried.
I normally faded into the "S" at about the rear foot, but I'm going
to start initiating it up forward a little. Basically it's just a way to ride a
thicker tail with more float that turns like a chippy tail like petite statured
pros use. It makes it possible to run with a flat or concave deck while
maintaining an effectively lower rail line. Plus it looks real neat, kind of
wingy or sting-like from above view. I use it also to allow me to go with
dimensions wider than normal in the tail. I built some 5'10"s with up to
18" tails for mushy waves. They were super stable, fun, fast, and loose
with skate-like pop. It's really impossible to make a blanket statement about
how these rails work, because they can be shaped with any angles you dream of.
It's a way of thinning the rail and increasing flat float.It's a great project
for shapers who have fun experimenting. Love Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [LuckyLab] XPS Foam "gassing problem" cure??**
Posted: May 13, 2004 -
6:16pm | #21 (permalink) | Back to Top
I'm a fan
of EPS, but it is still possible to find EPS that will absorb water from
pressure changes caused by being encapsulated. The factors in manufacturing
EPS, EPE, and EPP include time in the steam chest, number of core vents in the
tool, vacuum volume to evacuate steam, temp of steam, loading the tool to
proper volume etc. The beads are closed cell, but with lower densities there
can be capillaries between the beads. It is risky in the 1lb. range. At 1.5lb.
on up the beads are usually packed tight enough. Back in the early '80s, Hydro
Foam sold pressure purge valves as a partial remedy for their blanks. I say buy
the EDRO foam to be safe in the lower densities. Love,Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [meecrafty] XPS Foam "gassing problem" cure??**
Posted: May 27, 2004 -
9:51pm | #51 (permalink) | Back to Top
Howdy
Bert, Greg, Kenz, Louis, Pinhead, Miki, Taylor, Larry, Meecrafty and everyone
else above who cares. I've been off in thick long meetings the last two days
working on EVAs, TPUs TPRs, Rubbers etc......so I missed out on this great
thread. Y'all are getting real warm here with the ideas. Here's the fun part; I
have all the above materials in stock in my shop. I've had non-isotropic
Rohacell since the early '90s (Rohacell has many grades, mine is twice as
strong in one direction, high temp. resistent, high price), Nida-core since the
mid '90's, aluminum and Nomex honeycomb since 1982, genetically engineered
hardwoods for five years, X-core samples five years ago(before it was exposed
to civilian industry, someone snuck it to me, it's from the Airforce and Navy
R&D program). It's a real futuristic product but way too expensive right
now, however, I'm working with the Pres. of that company currently to make it
more feasible. And Larry, yes, Tom(Y) Morey is using Nida-core on the new
Swizzles. I think I gave him their name and number two years ago. He's making
his "leafspring" spine with it, not the whole board. I have a Morey
Swizzle in my quiver. He was using Pepcore before, but I told him Nida-core is
more experienced with their film/Remay scrim for bonding. Anyway, I think we're
about to see a giant resurection of honycombs in surf. I think Aquajet and
W.A.V.E. Hollow scared everyone away in the seventies with product and business
plan failures, and of course the satanic word "MOLDED". I have my
wife on a new 9'0" hollow honeycomb board right now. I gave it to her for
Mothersday. It weighs less than 10lbs if she remembers to tighten her plug
before paddling out. I have some patents pending on this right now. Patents are
really stupid though, they are just to fend off the large pirate company who is
trying to bust into this industry and make false invention claims.
Bert.......if you are interested in truly making something big happen with
this, call or contact Greg at Resin Research and I'll contact him and we'll all
connect. I already have the ball rolling on this, but I'm swamped with my core
business right now, and would love to work as a team, because making a better
board is my passion. Greg can sell a sh*t load of epoxy. Both of you will howl
when I tell you my resources. The holy grail is a process that can be mastered
by any home builders here with minimal sanding and no blowing agents. I have
new fibers also that I can't discuss yet, but they are stronger than Kevlar,
don't fuzz like Kevlar, bond better than Kevlar, and don't itch like carbon or
glass. Basalt has some real neat properties also, but I think I'm already using
most of what is available in Russia right now. I have some super stiff boards
and some super flex boards, and they all have certain great qualities. Anyway,
so get in touch with Greg if you're interested Bert and maybe we can
accellerate this R&D so we can learn some new ways to surf before we all
get old and wilson! Love Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [resinhead] Your best tube ride...**
Posted: May 16, 2004 -
6:42am | #31 (permalink) | Back to Top
1992,
Tavarua, Cloudbreak, quadruple overhead sets. Only boatboy Hans and the camp
owners are out (w/helmets). I had broken my 8'3" single which was 1 week
old that morning. Twelve other broken sticks that day, including the Chiefs
last board. Me and buddy ask Eddie for boat out at dusk. Flecky and Jack
decline(this is the trip Black Flies concocts super-sex- sells suglasses
concept). Eddie drops us(don't own helmet) way out in channel. I'm down to a
7'0" twinny with wings, six channels, and a phony wood remay scrim color
job. As we paddle half way in to the line-up, lo-and-behold comes a monster
swinger way out in the channel. Hans and his bosses are scrambling out the deep
side. I just got so excited that I didn't even think to hesitate. Easy mountain
drop to hands in the sky green roof(low tide square) like dreems of pipe , quad
overhead .....deeper,deeper, deeper, ....cough. Just as I was about to do the
glory slash, a drop the size of a 55gal drum, blasted my cranium through my board
. When I came up, the front half was gone. Me and my prickly-itchy tail enjoyed
the full set beating over shishkabobs. I got my hands on the reef
scaffolding(this was the week after Endless Summer 2 was there) and climbed it.
Eddie came around back and I paddled my 3-foot tail to the boat. I was out of
boards for the rest of the week, and no one would loan one. They deemed
Cloudbreak too big to surf the next few days and everyone broke more sticks a
Restaurants. I learned to catch seasnakes with the kids in the middle of the
island. Flecky and Jack returned home and sold a bundle of spectacles using a
naughty-girl image. Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [JohnMellor] Define Epoxy**
Posted: June 22, 2004 -
4:34pm | #4 (permalink) | Back
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John
nailed it. Surftechs are not compression molded or popped out as some
uninformed people keep implying. They do handcraft alot of them because people
like them enough to buy alot of them. People aren't being forced to buy them. I
have 8 in my quiver. They are hand- lammed vacuum bagged. Just because they are
popular doesn't mean they are evil. I quit using polyester on my own shapes in
1980 when I was in the tenth grade. Epoxy has some neat qualities. Finding your
magic shape is the real trick. Everyone should support a Thai citizen now and
then. Their national food is spectacular. Our national food of fame in the U.S.
is ketchup and marshmellows and packaged "low" fat fried things. I
love any board with a good shape, par larm, and ketchup. Call Resin Research
and order up! Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [Swifty] can width make up for thickness?**
Posted: June 18, 2004 -
4:58am | #32 (permalink) | Back to Top
Once
again, I second Bert's opinion. I was running a head to head test a few days
ago with a super ugly thick tailed McCoy,6'6"x15" tail against my old
1984 faded pink newwave graphic twinnie,5'11"x 17.25" thin tail, and
I happened to share a beautiful point surf with none other than Paul Jensen on
his hollow blue XPS experiment. My old thin wide tail felt like a greased pig
compared to the McCoy, which just maintained a neutral speed. The waves were
smokin though so the McCoy was fine, but in less juice, thin and wide will be
my choice. I truly suggest bell-curved S-rail tails as a compromise for all the
well-fed craftsmen out there. This way you can have it both ways; chippy thin
rails with as much volume as you want down the center. Where I come from, a
little extra volume is OK to keep you a little higher out of the icy water,
while sitting. And Bert, your board picture is almost dead on dimensions and
shape to what I have shaped for myself since 1982, concave deck and rail shape.
Only yours is off the chart for asthetic beauty! Bert, I just found the message
today (Paul Jensen also). I'll e-mail you guys in a couple days, I gotta super
busy messed up schedule today and the next. Work and weddings(not mine). Paul
gotta surf with my beautiful wife while I had to leave to work on Monday! Wide
good! Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [DaleSolomonson] Swizzle**
Posted: June 6, 2004 -
7:38pm | #4 (permalink) | Back
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I have
one from about three years ago. My only regret is that I didn't have Tom(Y)
sign it! I asked him why it came with a fin because he had originally designed
it to be ridden finless. He said that he's getting a bit older now so using a
fin is ok. It has performed especially well for me when I was 3 weeks out of
surgery with a new stainless steel rod in my broken femur. I belly rode my
10'0" Swizzle on a point break and could belly turn it from the nose while
hanging chin, thanks to the sidecut. I never told the doctor, of course. It
surfs real interesting while standing. Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
**Re: [tiktokman] can I down size my big mac, please ?**
Posted: January 18, 2005
- 3:50pm | #50 (permalink) | Back to Top
Dave
Parmenter had to write something. He got paid. It doesn't need to truly mean
anything. Most of what he says rarely means anything. Jounalists have a job to
cover paper. Steve Pez and San Dimas High School football rules!
Love, Delbert de Von Pumpernickel
**Re: [tomatdaum] Does epoxy bond/stick to plastic?**
Posted: July 16, 2004 -
7:58am | #6 (permalink) | Back
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Epoxy is
a great adhesive for most thermoplastics, however plasma, corona, or
flame-treating is usually necessary to modify the surface chemistry for
bomb-proof bonds. For do-it-yourselfers, buy a Burnzamatic propane torch and
quickly pass the silver tip of the inside flame cone about a quarter of an inch
from the plastic. Move it fast and don't let it heat up much. If the plastic
melts, then it won't bond at all. Pre-test the surface-tension by wetting with
water. If it beads up, it won't bond. If it wets, it usually indicates an
adequate bond. Good luck, it works like magic. Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
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Posted: August 30, 2005
- 7:50pm | #43 (permalink) | Back to Top
Nice info
on TDI's Bert!
Can we
change the poopees to red and the epoxy corner to blue. In the U.S., blue
pretty much means concern for the environmental future and health of fellow
humans...........red pretty much doesn't give a sh*t about humans or the
environment as long as there's alot of dollars.....plus the quicker worker
humans die of industrial disease the quicker they get to wear halos and white
sheets and white wings in fluffy clouds. Reds can also speak in tongues sometimes........could
be styrene impairement! Reds also don't mind poking holes in humans if they
live far enough away..........so they certainly don't mind TDI and styrene
exposure. Reds also aren't so sure of that science stuff.
Oh yeah
Bert, the bun is in the oven for one more month, so I won't know which unit it
comes equipped with until it climbs out of it's peep-hole.
*****Special
bonus for epoxy skeptics who like the "vintage antique" poopee feel
but do give a sh*t about the environment.......you can build a 2.5-3lb. density
EPS blank with a standard wood stringer and glass it with Greg's standard
modulus epoxy with your normal 7533-1522 loose thick twisted weave glassing
schedule and it will feel the same as the poopee you love so much, yet be much
nicer to nature! You don't have to build a high performance surfboard just
because it's epoxy. You can build them heavy and sluggish. If you yearn for
nostalgic days of shatter dings on light impact, Greg can mix you a special
batch of super-high modulus epoxy with great shatter properties! Greg can
engineer any shatter properties you might desire. Charge away poopee lovers!
Love,
Delbert Pumpernickel
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Posted: August 31, 2005
- 9:03am | #56 (permalink) | Back to Top
On
topic.....I started building XPS and EPS/epoxy surfboards in 1981 when I was 17
years old. When I was 15 and 16, I built with poopee because that's what the
library book from the 60's said boards were made of. The book also said to talk
about cars, movies and friends while waiting for waves in the line-up. I had
never met a surfer. Surfshop didn't come here until 10 years later. Thus I had
to reinvent everything myself. I originally even poured my own PU blanks. Now I
have a career doing R&D as the largest epoxy user in sporting goods in the
world. We use no Polyester thermosets.
Thanks
for the support Paul, Meecrafty, Benny, and my Norsk brother(my roots are
viking....say hi to Terj).
Off-topic...to
CMP
I didn't
intend to specifically ruffle any feathers with blue/red talk. Bert is a buddy,
so I just thought I'd modify his color chart since the U.S. seems to package
alot of simple-of-mind color talk lately. I greatly respect your posts and all
you have accomplished with your boards while going against the status quo. Your
boards are tech, beautiful, and usually feature a sweetheart daughter in the
background that looks like my daughter's sister. I also respect the mechanical
reaction from a tug on your finger at the dinner table..........and those
kick-arse swallow noses!
However,
there is nothing in my post anti-Christian or anti-American. Please re-read it.
That is a big problem in media and government right now. Elephants are calling
donkies anti-American and anti-Christian based on nothing.....and unfortunately
many people listen without thinking(epoxy users tend to have better cognition).
As far as
anti-American, I am running the largest "Handcrafted in America"
marketing campaign in the history of sporting goods. I have spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars on mag ads, brochures and posters in the past few years,
while my flag waving elephant competitors have moved their production offshore
for profit/toxicity reasons only.......and they're claiming us donkies are
anti-American?
That said, I support all people of the world (I love Muslims) and wish they had
a golden opportunity to build my epoxy toys…but I really like my crew who
happen to be situated on U.S. shores bcause we all grew and learned
craftmanship together.
As far as
anti-Christian, my father was a minister and his father was a minister and they
were two of the best humans I have ever met. My dad died in Alaska a few years
ago while exploring a high mountain lake on a pair of hockey skates (Graf
Skates from Switzerland that I sent him for Christmas). Warm water killed
him!.......He skated over a warm-spring in 0 degree weather.....Oops! He was a
mountainman and a ballsy cliff diver. He was a missionary who brought in
supplies by boat to the native-Americans and people in need. He had a masters
degree in philosophy and Latin so he could read ancient writings such as the
Bible and writings not allowed in the Bible by the politics of the time. He did
not understand why people spent so much time worshipping a book, instead of doing
what the latter pages of the book said to do.
My
reference to "speaking in tongues"......now that stuff baffles me and
my dad. I did my biggest college paper ever on "speaking in tongues".
I interviewed people from around the world, studied ancient writings, and
visited many evangelical organizations. My conclusion is that it is a very
dangerous way to control human minds and manipulate people. I snuck in
tape-recorders to churches and it was hillarious! People getting bopped in the
head at the alter and sticking wads of cash in offering plates. The common
denominaor was that the guy at the top was always filthy-rich and getting laid
by more than his wife. One large church even escorted me out with a gun and
asked me not to return.....probably because I had a sh*t-arse grin while the
preacher did a ballet spin while frollicking with his tongue. Five years later
they shut the place down because they shot a 2 year old kid who "had a
demon in him". He died. They started many new churches in new locations.
I
interviewed a minister from Kenya who freaked when he visited the U.S. and told
me that "speaking in tongues" sounded just like the feared
witch-doctors in the jungles back home.
Every
church I examined had their own unique sounds which were learned from their
respective leader. Every leader was friggin wealthy. Hairpieces and make-up
were the fashion status quo. I'm not totally sure if Jesus was diggin it.
Thanks
for the invite to Hawaii........one of the downright nicest blue states
ever........I love the seven mile miracle!
Question
ALL authority.......heck...question everything.
For every
minute with Rush, spend a minute with Mr. Franken.
Balance John Stewart with Fox News.
Craft surfboards with lots of materials before broadcasting opinions as gospel.
Humans
should be smart enough to quit poking holes in and draining other humans.
Epoxy
makes me happy.
Love,
Delbert de Von Pumpernickle
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Posted: August 31, 2005
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It wasn't
20 feet, but I rode outer Sunset two years ago at 18 feet. My stick of choice
was a Jim Richardson urethane-skinned flex torsion -box Surflight. Only 5 of us
rotated through the peek and Mark Cunningham congradulated me afterward. That
was the most Greg Brady moment of my surf life. They cancelled the Vans Triple
Crown that day because the surf was nutty. So the grandstands were full and
busses were everywhere. No one new it was ok for civilians to surf Sunset that
day........except me and 4 others! But it wasn't 20', only a measly 18'.
Love,
Delbert P.
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Posted: August 31, 2005 - 9:39am | #61 (permalink) | Back to Top
Oh
yeah, thanks Jim Richardson and Jeff Johnson for that perfect shape and VERY
innovative construction.......www.surflight.com.
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Delbert P.
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kind of being a Kip Dynamite today.
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Posted: August 31, 2005 - 9:41am | #62 (permalink) | Back to Top
GOSH
Re: [Bert_Burger] when
the oil is gone
Posted: September 4, 2005 - 4:30am | #36 (permalink) | Back to Top
Howdy Bert and crew who care about
quality of life on earth in the future,
Bert's right about vegetable oil
based epoxies. They already exist for the coating industry, and they'll be
coming eventually to good old fashioned lam. epoxies. I've been using thousands
of pounds of Nylon11 for many years now. It is made from castor beans which can
grow all over the world, but Brazil and India are the leading farmers of it.
Nylon11 is super tough with some of the best balanced properties of all thermoplastics.
Also some might not know that
Rudolph Diesel invented his engines in Deutchland in the late 1800's and they
were intended andoriginally ran on vegetable oil. He used rapeseed oil. Then
the petro-tycoon came along and changed that......black gold! Farmers could've
been and soon will be in power positions.
I run my Ford F250 Powerstroke truck
on 100% soy and Wendy's grease biodiesel right now and also have a performance
chip that nets an extra 30%h.p. and 3-5 miles per gallon. The engine runs WAY
smoother and quieter than with petro. The future can be bright!
Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
Re: [GregLoehr]
Ecological Resins
Posted: September 14, 2005 - 11:59am | #19 (permalink) | Back to Top
Great points Greg! Sometimes
biodegradable is not the best for this planet's safety. Durability is the
ultimate goal for eco-friendly products. When you said "learned", I
thought I could Bert saying "learnt" in the background.
Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
Re: [Haavard] Ecological
Resins
Posted: September 15, 2005 - 4:51am | #35 (permalink) | Back to Top
Basalt fiber is processed without
any of the gnarly chemical additives required to make E or S-glass. The only
problem is that the only people that can make it are in Russia and two former
Soviet countries, and they are currently backlogged. Luckily I pre-bought 3
years worth of balls of fiber that we can weave into any mid to heavy patterns.
So far we haven't been able to weave it into light enough fabrics for surf
ride'in boards.......but ah the future! Basalt is up to 92% stronger than E-glass.
U.S. companies have tried to make basalt fiber and failed multiple
times........hail Russian scientists! Basalt does require a heap of heat to
melt though.
I say use the earth's existing petro
to make well thought-out long-lasting hardgoods. Burn biofuels and solar
generated electricity for transportation........i.e. biodiesel in your auto or
bbq baked beans in your mouth will power a bike with minimal strain on the
ecosystem.
Also, castor bean oil is already
making Nylon11, which is my favorite Nylon of choice.
Greg's points are dead-on
dooders.........keep listening!
Love, Delbert Evil Pumpernickel
Re: [oneula] Knee
problems
Posted: August 17, 2005 - 8:07pm | #15 (permalink) | Back to Top
Howdy Oneula and SF69,
I 've had 5 surgeries in the last 8 years due to skateboarding, snowboarding,
and surfing…compound bleeding tib/fib snap, femur snapped off at the hip
and knee, two spinal chord injuries, ripped shoulder AC, two severely
dislocated shoulders that needed a surgeon, a torn meniscus, and a backside
lip- slap to wilson completely tore my ACL, MCL, and remaining meniscus. So
here’s my advice that my surgeon totally approved of…build a halfpipe in
your backyard if you have space and skate, skate, skate or find one to use.
It’s smooth rehab and realy polishes off the crunchies that probably formed on
the ends of your bones. My doctor (the best in the world in my opinion) said to
wear kneepads and always take the slide-out verses run- out bail option. I’m 41
1/2 years old and don’t have any aches or pains…and I still have two
stainless steel leg rods and lots of screws.
I think they cut out the meniscus on
my right knee and spliced it on Alex Rodriguez's right knee. We had surgeries
together in the same room ten minutes apart. The TV reported that night that
Alex had a new meniscus grafted in and would play baseball again in 3 weeks.
Our doctor told me he took mine out and it would be a 6 week
recovery........and we're both the exact same height and weight!
Anyway. even just mellow pumping on
skate trannies will polish the bones and strengthen the thighs. Sufing should
be painless I hope.
Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
Epoxy!
Re: [jeffrey11] Getting
around in Costa Rica
Posted: January 21, 2005 - 9:03am | #4 (permalink) | Back to Top
Call Tropical Tours for a shuttle,
Ph. 011 506 640 0384. They will pick up anywhere in SanJose and deliver you to
your door for $35 including ferry. $105 for three people. Half hour flights to
Tambor are $66 one way, then you must take a short bus ride. I'd do the
shuttle......less hassle and great sites to see along the way. I was just there
with a 4x4 at the end of the rainy season. The zone you're going to is unreal.
Beautiful people, monkies galore, hippies, best food ever, some throwin low
tide smokers. The locals beat up anyone who rides polyester boards.
Resin Research Epoxy and Sunova rules!
Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
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Posted: December 28, 2005 - 10:54pm | #32 (permalink) | Back to Top
Howdy Paul and Y'all,
Good times here! I've been living on
a chair at Children's Hospital since October 16. Just got out before Christmas.
The outside world is real nice. We've dualled the grim reaper and won so far
thanks to Gore-tex, stainless steel, and some real skilled cardiac craftsmen. I
will spend a good chunk of the next 4 years in the hospital with my new little
girl....multiple more open-heart surgeries and drug cocktails coming up. I love
technology! Good times.
Anyway, I built two hollow
13'9"s and two hollow 7'0"s back in 1984. The goal was to build them
in less than 2 hours each. Me and my buddy Mervin raced each other. We used
1/4" doug-fir ply skins, cheap pine sidewalls, drywall screws, caulk, and
2 coats of ugly green house paint......and wine bottle corks for plugs. Oh
yeah.....pine skegs. They actually took over three hours to make....bummer. And
they were real ugly.
We surfed them at Seaside
Point(where my friend Brian just got chomped by a Great White) on some beefy
days (Paul knows). We had to drag our feet Tom Blake style to turn the
13'9"s. The 7'0"s had Sampsonite suitcase handles on the sides for
easy carrying.....and to bum out the locals. The all rode horrible.......but
not as bad as a Mctavish V from the 60's. So I guess I might be one of the
Swaylock's hollow board veterans by default.
Paul's boards are real pretty, I've
surfed some real swell sessions with him. And it's nice to see some New
Englanders and Kiwis joining in on the hollow fun.
In the olden days, Mervin and I even
poured our own PU blanks. I don't understand why the Clark lovers don't get
more vertical and pour their own.......that's craftmanship...and it's cheap!
Love,
Delbert Pumpernickel
Re: [GregLoehr] Foaming
epoxy
Posted: February 23, 2005 - 9:18pm | #9 (permalink) | Back to Top
An old trick I learned from a wise
old Dow epoxy chemist since the '60's............ spit in the epoxy bucket and
then jiffy mix it! You can vary the foam by varying the loogy amount hocked.
Try to use pure H20.....minimize mucus. It will react even more with heat or
exotherm. This actually works.
If anyone wants any rubber or
urethane epoxy additives, I think I have over a hundred gallons of each that
have been sitting since 1990. Greg's right on, elastomeric additives seem like
a great idea, but they wipe out many of the important physical properties that
you need in epoxy, mainly compression strength. It's kind of like putting
Kevlar in compression.
Del P.
Re: [retroman] Foaming
epoxy
Posted: February 24, 2005 - 11:44am | #11 (permalink) | Back to Top
Foam is by nature, cloudiness. The
System Three duders just verified my tip. I use over 450 gallons of epoxy on a
daily basis and thus have learned a few tricks over the years. Sweat drips will
also create foaming. All my epoxy is run through static mixers so no air or
moisture is induced in the mixing process. I try not to foam!
Heat must be applied during cure,
not postcure, to create foam.
Love, Delbert Pumpernickel
Posted: January 23, 2009
- 8:39am | #13 (permalink) | Back to Top
Liquid
Shredders rule. I got a 6'2" about 6 years ago The foam is fused 4lb EPS
so it doesn't absorb much water. The water gets trapped between the vinyl skin
and the foam because they are not bonded together. It fills like a balloon and
then drains out. I even waxed over the paper poster on the deck. It been coming
off in the line-up in chunks. The owner of Liquid Shredder sent me a few sets
of their stiffer pro fins and they are a lot stiffer.
Every
time I make a friend take it out for a go, their surfing level turns up a
notch.
Pre
Firewire, I introduced Bert Burger, Greg Loehr, Nev, and Dougal Walker to
Liquid Shredders to show them that Firewire was up against some stiff
competition. I do regret that I don't have a photo of this power crew together
in the Liquid Shredder booth. The Liquid Shredder guy tried to interst the
Firewire crew in some fine vinyl shink-wrapped skinned sticks.
Good to
see Herb has embraced vinyl tech. Now go find a Liquid Shredder poster for your
wall.
Re: [allangibbons] Stiff
boards
Posted: February 23, 2009 - 9:58pm | #53 (permalink) | Back to Top
To Allan Gibbons, going down the way
back when road(1983), my whole lifestyle and career was influenced by my
buddies and I, as young lads, watching you on larger DOHish days at a cold left
point up north, Prater's Place, doing the squarest bottom turns I've ever seen
to this day on a little 5'4" or 5'6"ish quad. The legend still
stands that to do a proper 'Gibbons' you must turn so square off the bottom
that you cross the wake of your drop-in to smack the lip.
I now engineer flex for a living and
get the honor of working with some of the top pros in the world.
Thank you Allan for the great
influence and teaching us what was possible to achieve while standing sideways.
Al, the artist, could also paint a
fine female birthday suit or an excellent Duty Now For The Future symbol on
foam.
"No leashes, black wetsuits,
white foam, I didn't sell this show down the road." I also won't
forget the wise quote of shaper Florida Phil, who I caught further north one
day with a leash.