How the boardlady does it:
Hey kiricorc,
Please post lots of pics of that, will you?
Pics of my woes are on the way, downloading thing.
This is how it went down: routed nice clean ½" holes in the bottom of the board, directly under the delam. Went ahead and did the other side too, as it had the first signs of trouble. The pour foam came right back up just as expected, but did not travel in and around the delam bubble at all. I even dug out some eps foam to have a good look.
Speedneedle’s method is going to be the call.
This board is vented, but I worry(ied) more about water getting in than air getting out. I told my wife if she had to forget to do the vent on her board it would better to leave it closed.
Is there a simple homemade valve yet? I need something automatic. I got this one way check valve from one of the vac bagging suppliers, it’s Tetra brand. That’s fish aquarium stuff. Sure enough they had them at the pet store for $1.75 instead of $3.00. Inside the small plastic drum, there is a rubber valve, simple.
So I could mount it in the boards and air could come out freely. Would I ever have to get air back in? Everytime I’ve opened the vents, air comes rushing out, never heard the board suck back in. Don’t get me wrong, my boards suck, ha, but all summer the air would want out, right? In the winter the air would need to go back in? If the air only went out, could the board end up with some kind of clamping pressure in cooler weather? Would that be bad?
I could drop one of these fish tank check valves in the board the same way the screw type valve goes in, and never have to think about it. What do you guys think? I tried sticking a toothpick in the check valve and you can get air to flow the other way. Can’t be good for that little rubber piece though.
Little help please.
WM
if you have a vent , connect up the pump to the vent and see if the bubble comes down …
if it does , then all you have to do is make a small hole in the bubble , insert resin with a syringe , tape over the hole with a piece of masking tape and connect the vacy line to the vent …
regards
BERT
Thanks BB,
Sounds like the call.
Seems the bubble is about 1 foot long, 6 inches wide and running length wise. I’m a little worried about getting the center of the bubble to stick back down and having a doughnut shaped delam. Might try the rail slice method.
I really like this board but am not satisfied with the vent I chose. Thinking or retro fitting one of your cast bolt style vents.
Is Gore-Tex what I am after, or is there something more affordable?
Is anybody using a non-screw type vent, or a automatic breather?
The lucky thing here is I have a place to pull a vac from.
Been riding my wife’s board lately. Not near as much concave in the deck and I’ve been duckdiving with my foot instead. Just wondering if I should get her a tail pad before I wreck her board. ha. BTW, had to be secure in my masculinity to ride this board.
WM
Any chance of seeing some pics? What happened to the foam underneath the skin?
Thanks,
Doug