Had this happen to my one and only paddle in the surf yesterday. I'd like to say it was maxed out and huge, or, you should see the other guy. But no it was only small and the board must have just hit it the wrong way.



So with the help of a drop saw...


I cleaned off the rough bits, cut a piece off the extension part ( I never used the full length anyway), shoved that in as a dowl.
And then some part A and part B.

Then Bob Naish is your uncle!



Now in contrary to the title of this, I only realised I could do this after I spent onefiddy on a new one and was about to throw this one away. It took me a full day to have "light Bulb" moment. How not so clever am I.
Oh well, at least I have a spare

Yep! Clever boy! Well done! :D

Yes sir you are a lever boy.

Nice spare paddle you hit there.

ET.

He who dies with the most paddles wins!!

did you sandpaper(rough up) the dowel and the inside of the shaft ?

funnily enough i just fixed an identical paddle with an almost identical break (mine snapped off a little closer to the shaft.... courtesy of my mates 4WD :(

i took a different approach and nuked it with a heatgun - managed to extract the snapped off end from the blade with help from some needle nose pliers.... and then just glued it back together.

however I reakon your method may be preferable bobajob as the amount of heat i had to give to that sucker can't have been good for the blade. it's still good after a few sessions though :)

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latman said..
did you sandpaper(rough up) the dowel and the inside of the shaft ?

Whoops...not so smart again

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yt04 said..
He who dies with the most paddles wins!!

But at the price of the things you'd die a poor man.

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beefarmer said..
funnily enough i just fixed an identical paddle with an almost identical break (mine snapped off a little closer to the shaft.... courtesy of my mates 4WD :(

i took a different approach and nuked it with a heatgun - managed to extract the snapped off end from the blade with help from some needle nose pliers.... and then just glued it back together.

however I reakon your method may be preferable bobajob as the amount of heat i had to give to that sucker can't have been good for the blade. it's still good after a few sessions though :)

That takes 4WDriving to a new level if you have to paddle the bastard