You go get a newspaper route and be nice to the old ladies chalking up mundane conversations about houseplants or chihuahuas for extra tips until you've saved up about 150 bucks. Then you abruptly abandon your post, leaving the old ladies wondering what happened to the polite young man with all the zits, take the board to a shaper who does ding repair, and drop it off for about a week.
Seriously though this would require buying 4 oz. glass and I'm guessing epoxy resin, though the price is pretty much the same for poly (expensive!) and going through a pretty tricky process, especially if you've never glassed a whole board, which is actually easier than fixing this little gem. Keep your shortboard away from beavers.
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iv got some crappy beat up boards,but how did that happen?seriously,it looks like u took a cheese grater to the stringer.id buy a new used board.you would have to reglass the whole bottom.
It happened a few months ago, surfing some waist high wind slop in the gulf, caught a wave and saw that strip of glass tailing behind my board, the previous wave i had whipped out on and nicked the sand bar so i'm assuming that was the culprit. Thanks for the tip's i think? I'm a broke college student was hoping to see if I can fix it up myself to cut cost but it sounds like it's out of my budget and experience.
It may well be out of your experience, in fact I'm sure it is, but that repair is not a budget buster. I cant see if any of the FCS plugs got ripped out, but if not then a realistic DIY budget for that project is: $10 for 2 yards of 4 oz cloth (there is a way you could do it with 1 yard but I can't really recommend it) $15 for one quart of polyester sun cure laminating resin (assuming its a poly board) $5 bucks for a few sheets of sandpaper, a plastic squeegee, and a small toss away paint brush Don't try it if you don't know how or wont learn how, but that board can be put back in the water for about $30 and one sunny afternoon.
even if the fcs was ripped out just fill the holes with foam, reglass the ripped out sections and reinstall the plugs. Honestly if your asking can it be done then its outside your realm of expertise. You could always give it a shot, worst case scenario it looks like **** and it should be water tight for a couple of sessions. ****, my first major delam repair looked like ****. Had to paint the whole board to cover up the nasty.
That looks like a good bit of delamination. Pm me and I can help. However I read that your on the cheap bastard college budget so keep in mind that buying the proper materials to fix this will cost presumably 50-100 dollars. It might be worth getting it quoted at the shop for some repairs. But buying the proper materials and self repairing is easy it just requires a small investiment of materials namely resin, harndner and fiberglass which isn't cheap stuff.
Before you use a polyester resin which I advise you against it's essential to know what the board has on it currently. Poly only bonds to poly not to epoxy. But epoxy bonds to poly and epoxy so for repairs epoxy is usually always the way to go because it 'keys ' into anything. And sun cure is no proper way to fix a board permanently. Judging by the damage you need to re laminate with glass cloth and epoxy resin.
Why? I've glassed at least a half dozen surfboards using only UV cure laminating resin and quite a few of them are fine after years of use. Thousands of boards are built every year with UV cure resin, so why would you think that it is not a proper way to reglass the bottom of this board....assuming it is a PU/PE board? You do realize i'm not talking about the sun cure stuff that you squeeze out of a tube right?
These are quite proper for major repairs or glassing boards in general. This is a temporary fix when you have a ding. Not for major repairs.
Oh I see does the sun cure brand make a resin and hardener ? Then yes that would probably work fine. The suncure temp stuff wouldn't not be acceptable tho.
