Surf Bort Repair Thread

that second pic looks good man! what kind of resin are you using?

 

Noice... Pour the leftover resin in that crack in your floor. Or is it your ceiling?

 

Not to hi-jack your thread, but heres a ding repair / restoration project from this past weekend. Pics go from newest to oldest



(edit) ....stupid pics uploaded sideways

 

thanks! It's all the same board. I fixed like 7 dings and sprayed her for one of my buddies. He hated the peptobismol pink so I went with a super masculine camo design

 

never heard that before. I know with epoxy the ratios are super important. I wonder what LBCrew would say...

 

That's not a very well written explanation of a hot coat, and it only pertains to poly resin anyway. If you are using poly resin, yeah you use a bit higher catalyst ratio for the hoat coat. Not because it will be shinier, but because it will be sandable quicker, and you just don't want it sitting there runny any longer than needed. You also add surfacing agent to the resin to make it sand out better.

If you are using epoxy resin, then the Surfscience quote is not applicable. You should use the 2:1 ratio for every step. Deviating from that 2:1 ratio by adding more hardener is not recommended, and provides no benefit. It actually could make the resin fail to cure properly.

Also, the hot coat is not just for looks. Any repair that doesn't including that hot coat layer is susceptible to having water leak through the repair into the core of the board.

 

If it was just the hot coat, and set up hard and sandable, your good.

 

Ya took the words right outta my mouth. As long as it kicked (fully hardened so you can sand) you're fine. After you have a batch that doesn't kick you become very diligent about you ratios. The epoxy I use is 1:.44 so I use a weight scale to make sure I'm right on the money with my mix.