Just bought a second hand board. Looked OK but one of the Futures fin boxes wobbles inside the board. The glass on the surface looks OK apart from a small crack.

Anyone out there repaired one of these or know who could ? Any suggestions what to do?

42 looks no answers,I'd take it to your local repair guy,those futures are an expensive set up so may as well spend the money on a good repair.

Thanks Mac, just did.

Diagnosis - "it's a Futures box and they suck when this happens. Repair will be time consuming and not pretty. Not interested"

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Hunter S said...

Thanks Mac, just did.

Diagnosis - "it's a Futures box and they suck when this happens. Repair will be time consuming and not pretty. Not interested"

tell him to harden up! I have a fella here that could fix it for ya but given you are on the other side of the country its a no go. Doggie may know someone who will do it - he may even have a crack himself. He normally doesn't frequent SB on a w/e though.

Yeah take it somewhere that instals futures, I've cracked mine and had it fixed no worries.

Once again other side of the country..

^^^ Probably should explain. The board's epoxy with a bamboo laminate and some colour around the fin area as well. All adds up to a complex repair, so I think the concern was how much time it would take to do a decent job

not a complex repair if they now what there are doing,time would take about 10 min of work ,if the glass is good as you say ,get a drill ,set up a fin in the box set the cant the same as the other side ,drill 3 mill holes around the box 8 in total ,about 6 mill away from the box ,get a syringe and mix up some epoxy with q cells for coulour and inject the epoxy into all the holes good and hard ,let set clean excess of with a razor blade very light wet and dry ,very clean and strong job ,if they know what they are doing you would use left over epoxy from a lam ,i have done this many times and it dose dot take any more that 10 of work ,it will take longer if you have smoke ,drink ,a few phone calls and so on ,you should only be paying for time plus epoxy ,30 bucks is fair in my book

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vgr said...

not a complex repair if they now what there are doing,time would take about 10 min of work ,if the glass is good as you say ,get a drill ,set up a fin in the box set the cant the same as the other side ,drill 3 mill holes around the box 8 in total ,about 6 mill away from the box ,get a syringe and mix up some epoxy with q cells for coulour and inject the epoxy into all the holes good and hard ,let set clean excess of with a razor blade very light wet and dry ,very clean and strong job ,if they know what they are doing you would use left over epoxy from a lam ,i have done this many times and it dose dot take any more that 10 of work ,it will take longer if you have smoke ,drink ,a few phone calls and so on ,you should only be paying for time plus epoxy ,30 bucks is fair in my book

Yeah vgr that can work. I've actually done this myself previously with an FCS Fusion box - worked fine. Gotta say though, I needed a lot more than 8 holes, took a lot longer than ten minutes, and didn't look great - very hard to colour match the holes.

The current board has a painted area over the bamboo near the fins.

Over in mining boom WA you don't get much for $30 these days