…man,
right now I just finished a deck lam, and I had about 20 or more bugs (due to a bad weather)surfin and trying to ruin my work…
and Im in a rush cause I have to delivery these 11 boards in a few days for a surf shop…
lucky enough that I was able to manage them…
rather than sealing up your posca pinlines with a clear acryllic spray, have you given any consideration to a quick spray-down of OFF? if that won’t keep the bugs away, then i don’t know what will!
Those bugs clearly need something better to do. How about sending them to school?
got to love zoolander
there’s more to being a male model than just being really really ridiculously good looking.
…hey soulstice,
but Im taking about lamination not sealing…so the bugs tried to went into both sheets of cloth…
"so the bugs tried to went into both sheets of cloth… "
in oz we have an expression “as snug as a bug in a rug” [did that come from dr. seuss , originally , i wonder?]
sounds like your bugs might be doing a sleepover shift.
M.P. once glassed a few cokroaches into a board [ a purple board, by the way] …
and called it …the “purple people eater”
so… maybe YOURS could be the ‘brazilian bug beater board’ , or something ?
ben
Reverb, dang I thought this was going to be about the band The Insect Surfers
http:///www.insectsurfers.com/action.htm
Seening that it is not about the band, all I can say is that one of the highly classified secrets to a building a “magic” Surfboard is that the recipe must include at least 3 self sacrificsial bugs.
Didn’t Resinhead have secret lamming resipe that included pubic hairs?
Hey reverb, how’d they look. You could always drop in a few other species and call the boards the Darwin Range. I’ve been thinkin about laying up some pressed and dried flowers into a lam layer…Maybe put a few bugs flyin around the flowers, make a it a bit of a montage!!!
I remember seeing a shaper in South Africa using a UV bugzapper unit in his glassing bay. Bit like the ones you have in commercial kitchens…Every few seconds theres this alimightyzap as another one bites the dust!!
Howzit Jedi, Since those bug zappers use electricity to zap the bugs you might have a possible igniter for a fire. I saw a bug catcher the other day that lures the bugs with a flourecent bulb but instead of zapping the bug it sucks the bugs in with a vacumm,seems a lot safer when used around flamable chems.Aloha,Kokua
Aloha Kokua,
See, now thats why I love swalocks…Connecting the dots!!! You’re so right about the electrical spark! The machine uses electricity to fry the bug by running current through it, thus super heating it so fast it explodes… But the guys in SA had a full on vent system sucking the air out the roof, with what looked like a propeller off an airplane. Guess that blew out fumes and wherever the air came back in, it wasn’t filtered hence the bugs!!!
Thats another thing to add to the list of things you gotta think about when you’re setting up a shapin shop… Ventilation works both ways.
Mahalo nui loa! Simon
Reverb, dang I thought this was going to be about the band The Insect Surfers
http:///www.insectsurfers.com/action.htm
Seening that it is not about the band, all I can say is that one of the highly classified secrets to a building a “magic” Surfboard is that the recipe must include at least 3 self sacrificsial bugs.
Didn’t Resinhead have secret lamming resipe that included pubic hairs?
welcome back Ben !!
that’s who I have been missing here lately !
[you , not ‘the insect surfers’ …never seen them …though the name sure appeals to me …it sure sounds a lot better than our band , “the butthole surfers” … they sound a wee bit SUSS for my liking , eh ?!]
cheers
ben
…shipman,
yeah
was a play with the asociation of the band name and the real insects…
very good band
I played in an instro band too
…yes, good idea
but not the electric like KOkua well said
there re others that have a sort of glue in a 50cm or so long thin plastic sheet…but I dunno where to find one…
Hi Reverb,
I remember seeing those sticky plastic things back in the 70’s and i think they are making them again now I know in oz you get them at the supermarket.
Or what about those cool multi coloured plastic strips that they used to have at the doors of the fish and chip shops and milk bars, very retro.
Alternatively you could tell the shop guy that the resin is actually the organic sap from some exotic tree and not polyester resin therefore much more environmentally sound and the bugs were already in it. Just like Jurrasic Park.
what about painting little black dots allover the board. haha.
just a thought.
Cheers
Daren
Hi Chippy mate!
Ceheers!
ben
you’re famous …
… even in outer space , it would seem , ben …
well DONE , mate ! …
[i always thought you were a bit of a space man , mate !]
cheeeeers [without any beers]
ben
Howzit reverb, those are fly catchers and I used them in my shop once but they didn’t work very well since they don’t have any phenomes (spelling) on them to attract bugs. It’s kind of like hang a lot and hope the bugs fly into them. I f you put them to close to your work area you keep running into them yourself. The non zapper ones I saw were at Wally world for about $19. When we rebuild my shop I’m putting one in.Aloha,Kokua
Har har, bug zappers. On yesterday’s NPR show “Click and Clack” the brothers related a story of guys trying to siphon some gas using a vacuum cleaner to create the needed suction. Vaccum hose in, switch on, KERBLAM and the vaccum was history. But they lived.
Click and Clack tell this better than me, the audio is downloadable.
Howzit Honlulu, Sounds like a couple of real rocket scientists to me. I know this is off topic but the best thing is to buy some clear tubing so you can see the gas coming and take the tube out of your mouth just before the gas gets to the end. Used this one time when syphoning some gas for Kamalei Alexander and he said what a great idea,my Dad used to always get a mouthful when using a garden hose. Aloha,Kokua