I have been doing repairs for a local shop and today he handed over this one to repair...I have never done a repair of this magnitude and was hoping to get some opinions on the best way to fix it.
I was thinking since it ripped completely from the stringer that I would cut a rectangle out of the nose and glue a new block of foam and shape it to match the other side and then patch it.......your thoughts are appreciated
Thanks,
Adam
Yup… square it out, glue in foam, shape, lam, hotcoat, sand and polish.
Wait a minute…
1 It looks like a funshape (?)
2 It came from China
Don’t fix it. Burn it.
Maybe some wood nose block action…
that would be cool because I have to repair the tail too
hey adam, dont waste your time with foam. prep sand your area then fill with microballons and resin. Then reform to shape of board. Then lam the area with cloth sand then re pin line. What shop do you do repairs for?
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that's what happens when you ship from China, one or two are bound to get a couple serious dings
yeah, when I cut it , it will look more like a triangle than a rectangle......may start this tonight. I'll post some more pictures of the process...thanks for making the pictures bigger aloaf
I can't figure out how to make them bigger, Oh well you get the picture of what I'm up against
yup
cut it out replace the foam and reglass
touch up the pin line
gloss and polish
That’s a strange looking ding. The pictures are so tiny, it’s hard to get a good look. But, it seems to be the result of blunt force trauma.
And, I’ll second the idea of just cutting away the damage, and rebuilding the area. I wouldn’t do a rectangle, though. A pie shaped wedge is what I always use when installing a foam plug.
Yeah, no way I wanted to even try and fix the epoxy boards.....you can have those....I would still like an epoxy lesson if you ever have the time.
Hi Adam ,
I would waste my time with foam replacement. I bet I could save the pin line too......
There's more than one right answer to your question.
If you choose to repair with filler instead of foam don't kick off the resin filler too fast. A large ding like yours will create lots of heat and make bubbles and cause other problems if you use too much catalyst. I've been down that road...........
Ray
Adam,
I saw that one when I was up there this week.
Easiest way to do that from what I saw is just cut it out and fill with resin and filler. reshape that taped off resin mess and glass over. Blend and polish everything back into that pinline and touchup. Since the stringer is intact I would not attempt to cut into that at all. In relation to how big the ding is and how much trouble it would be to place in extra foam it is not worth the hassle to go that route and it would look just about as cosmetically pleasing with the resin fill.
I did not want to mess with their poly repairs… The biggest pain with the epoxy china boards that get dammaged is that outter auto paint layer, the moment you touch it with sandpaper it all comes off and you see the brown epoxy they use underneath. Makes my teeth cringe thinking about it.
PM me your # - I lost it a while back after trying to coordinate the first time.
Ill be arround all weekend if you are free?
I was going through pictures on the camera and saw this so I thought I'd add it. I cut a peice of foam from another blank I had and glued it up. shaped it down and glassed. pretty simple!
this is a brand new board that has the yellowing of a board 5 years old
I'm going to go out on a limb and say these china boards aren't glassed with surfboard resin or they glass them really hot.
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it realy doesnt take long for resin to yellow slightly
I got some boards that have only been in the sun a few times and compared to a fresh one you can see a bit of yellowing
good fix though!