A crack in the armour

earinfector
posted 17 May 2008 17:05
roy - just was showing the board to mate and discovered a crack in the patu!!!doesn't look like a snap or damage to the wood, more that the resin has cracked. cracked all the way down so you can see the fibres of whatever that cloth is (what is it by the way).what's you advice oh boardmaster? let me know if you want more pics...

dunno how this happened man, promise i aint be rough with it! must have been those crankin full power bottom turns ( )i was doing...

RoyStewart
posted 17 May 2008 17:45
In the meantime it can be botch repaired with some glass cloth and epoxy so that you can keep riding it, a strip around the base will do it but it will have to be faired in carefully so that it doesn't muck up the water flow. . . it's not a big job at all, the area to bond with the cloth will have to be well sanded though.
posted 17 May 2008 17:54
The thing is that a glass repair will still be visible but will work fine, so might as well do that for now. . . maybe I'll refin it or possibly keep it patched as a war horse not sure.
posted 17 May 2008 22:15
Earinfector I have been thinking about the fin some more and realised that the cloth is probably still intact because the knitted coton is super stretchy, so I think it's just the resin that's failed. How about just masking of the crack and applying some warmish epoxy and seing if it will run into the resin crack ? We dould then give it a go and only go for the glass patch if it looks like the resin line is opening up or leaking. If it stays tight then it's all good. Lol gone from replacing the fin to a glass patch to a few drops of resin I know what comes next I'll just say bung some wax in it and keep surfing !

earinfector
posted 21 May 2008 17:21
hi roy, your board is now waterworthy again, it'll need your caring touch as i am but a tradesman not a craftsman, i've got a lot on and chch is getting it's annual swell tomorrow and a board is for riding not polishing (that's a hell of a sheen on that base, no match for my 600 grit!).

RoyStewart
posted 21 May 2008 20:17
A Fantabulous job Earinfector, thanks very much. By the way that gloss is thanks to Father Ted, the board left my place with a 600 grit finish.