Aloha Braddahs - I have been given a salomon core mayhem board that was ridden into the cliff wall of the big island. It has buckled and snapped allmost through to the deck from the bottom. The crack goes through the core and you can hinge the board in half - well allmost. The deck is actually in good shape and my friend wants it for a Waipio valley board to ride in the closeout beachbreak. Do you guy’s think it’s worth it and or can it be fixed? If so were do I start? I don’t even know what it’s glassed with??? I am assuming it’s epoxy and will use RR to fix. There is no stringer - so how do you give it strenghth again? please help?
It is glassed with epoxy and fibreglass.
But at the inside there is a carbon layer, if that is broken your board will flex in a very strange way.
It is best to post some pics so we can see the damage.
Chrisupp,
I fixed one with a buckled nose a while back. I cut the extruded foam back until enough of the inner carbon was exposed to allow for glassing. I put a couple of staggered layers of glass over the buckled carbon. 2 x 6 oz glass is supposedly close to carbon. I then tapered the foam and bagged in some scraps of blue house insulation which is basically the same foam. The outside lam is pretty light so I used 4 oz there. You could tweak on the repaired area pretty hard and it didn’t break but I’m sure it’ll break there again if it gets slammed into the bottom again. I assume your break is in the middle so that’s going to be tougher.
Dave D
DaveD is right on the fix tech, but he’s also correct that it’s just going to break again.
It will break just adjacent to the repair, because the ‘‘stiffness’’ of the repaired area
will create a focusing mechanism for loads.
IMO it won’t survive Hawaiian closeout beachbreak for long.