I can only guess, but I am assuming it had something to do with fire. Heard a story awhile back thru the coconut wireless. Nuff said, Lowel
Beautiful as always John.
lovely board , Kayu !
how does she ride ?
my brother scored a paulownia thruster a mate in brunswick made him . Beautiful sheen on that wood , eh ?!
cheers !
ben
dbslim , is that the quad you mentioned to me ?
keith , lovely colours !
are those two back fins double foiled , and your other [‘non-mckee’ ones ] , SINGLE foiled ?
if so , could you notice the difference a bit ?
I ask , because I recently rode a 5’11 quad , and , like you , it was the first time I’d tried the ‘mckee setup’
cheers
ben
[ please feel free to " pm " me , if you don’t want to write on this photo thread ? cheers ! ]
Had a 6"4 broken board and decided to give it a lifting.
I started delaminating the board (an elfing nightmare #1 as everybody was saying here, now I know… will not do it again), rails destroyed during the delamination etc…
The board ended up way smaller than expected as I had to reshape the rails and the overall contour of the board, nightmare #2.
Laminated clear, then added a swirled patch, orange gloss on the rails, then black gloss over the orange and around the patch, then distressed the rails, and finally clear gloss the entire board… Pretty long process, I was too ambitious plus had to go back and forth on the black gloss that didn’t set up correctly the first time, lot of rain in the bay area didn’t help I guess, nightmare #3.
The board is now a single fin 5"5’.
Finished except for the new nameplates
Plexiglass pieces are air deflectors so crap doesn’t blow in your face with the blank sitting on a rail.
Pete, damn it. I wish I needed another one. But I just can’t seem to make the case. Such a cool restoration project.
What is it about the lust for planners?
nocean - digging that 5’9 i just did one similar and am loving it!
dbslim - that is a hot little ride!
Thanks grasshopper. Enjoying these little minish type boards, especially in eps.
Fins- hey Ben, no that’s not the board I was talking about. I emailed you a pic but must not have come through. I will add it in a bit and get back to you. Thanks again
Hmmm… I know you left a fairly decent gap, but I feel like that plexi plate being so flat and covering a majority of the draw area will impede the vents from pulling in air and these might be more prone to overheating - may want to drill a few holes in those so they still block the foam without blocking the air - just my .02
Nice restore though, I got stuck at not having a bearing puller when I was trying to restore my Clark Foam Hitachi
build this eps fishy with a thin cork stringer. wetout fiberglass on each side of the foam, place cork in between and clamp. i do this with bamboo venner too. works pretty good. this shape works well stringerless with triple 4 deck and double 4 bottom - good for surfer who wants a lot of flex. bamboo stringer stiffens it up really nicely. hoping this cork willfall somewhere in the middle…
Nice. How are you cutting the board length-wise for the stringer?
All the best
I checked the motor temp’s with and without the deflector using a laser thermo and they were about the same, I wouldn’t experiment on planers I don’t own. It’s actually an exhaust port not an intake, and the usual rule is to have at least one fan diameter clearance before any obstruction (intake or exhaust) and the deflector is at about 75% of that. In this case it’s completely open around the perimeter and not a ductwork situation where all the air is being forced into another direction and then the fan diameter rule applies.
Hope you didn’t leave the old bearings in; you need both a bearing puller and separator tool. Hitachi P20 bearings require frequent replacement as they run much hotter because there is no metal housing for the heat to dissipate into (all planer bearings get extremely hot at 16K rpm). The typical rating for 7-8mm ID bearings is about 20K rpm max, much less if they have no heat sink. Once overheated, the grease viscosity is totally gone and it’s like running your car with no oil. Then they seize, spin, and melt into the housings. Not good candidates for restorations that you want to last unless you’re up to changing bearings every 80 hours or so.
Paulownia, 7’ by 22’', going to just oil with tung oil, weight 8 1/2 kgs.
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