What,s Mike up to now ... continued .,.
This is a continuation of this thread in wave sailing that im now doing in the WA section
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Wave-sailing/Whats-Mike-up-to-now?page=1The head on my carbon boom had become quite wobbly, not a major issue but just annoying. This is my first attempt at working on a boom. I didnt take pics of all steps as I was busy at times and didnt want to remove my rubber gloves, for get wet resin on my phone or water on my phone.
I bought a replacement head, measured the internal diameter. Then removed the old head an did some more measuring the internal head where it connects to the boom had worn about one mm on both of the internal outer edges. And the carbon had worn .5mm inside and 1.75mm on the outside. I Forgot to take pics of the worn carbon.
I cut enough carbon from these scraps to wrap the entire width twice eg 2 layers then some 2cm wide stips to wrap the edges to make another 4 layers. I thought about Kevlar but I didn't have any and it would have been a b1tch to sand level
I then tightly wrapped around some electrical tape and used a pin to prick it all over the electrical tape a few hundred times this allowed the excess resin to weep out. I wiped the exess resin off after about 20 mins, just to make tape removal easier.
fnck me seabreeze never plays nice with my Android mobile this carbon pic was supposed to load up under the third paragraph.
