Mark _australia said..




No its not, if you wanna pay post I'll send u one (minus pump)

Imax1 said..
I do use peel ply , for it is good Gives a great finish and sucks up a little resin .
Yes I use a ton of masking tape ,including graphics , around 10 rolls of cheap stuff $25 .
For those that are horrified and picturing me tipping a wheelbarrow of stones on my board , I should explain . This is for the bottom of the board with concaves. The top is mummified with tape . No sunken decks for me .
Firstly the blank has a layer of glass so is already stiff . I do half of the board at a time . On a bench I support the board very well then make a cardboard well tight around the board . Using a ribbed squeegee apply thickened resin to the 3 mm core and place on board . Cover in plastic then a thin blanket . Then I gently shovel on a 2 inch layer of clean small pebbles . Works a treat . Totally eco friendly as the garden gets its pebbles back when I'm finished .
On the topic of some resin seeping into the blank compared to a sealed blank , wouldn't the seeped blank have a stronger stiffer skin ? What would the weight and strength difference between a bogged and seeped blank be ?

ps: yeah , I know , " sucks ", " bottom " , " stiff " and " ribbed " was used in this thread.
pps : for Hooper , I also used " tape " and " cover in plastic "

Mark _australia said..
Overner

Like everyone else I wet out on a table then transfer the glass to the board, there is no excess resin. When that glass is used to bond corecell to the EPS, it is sufficient to make a board that lasts. The micro areas of no bond seem to not matter if people are jumping it hard for a few seasons with no issue. So I ask - why would you fill? instead of your question why not fill....?

I see the argument with stuff like end grain balsa but part of the problem is then it sucks resin from the filler and you can end up with a powdery weak fill sometimes. As Hoops says its gotta be done in the same step - not fill and sand and then bond if you can avoid it.

The sealing blanks thing on Swaylocks seems to me that it came from people who only every wet out glass over PU, then suddenly had EPS drinking up resin. Good glassing technique minimises that, or as we said wet out on table but surfboard guys were largely unaware of that 20yrs ago (and if you're making a lot of them it would be a nightmare to have a wetout table). Smearing wall filler on a blank is crazy talk yet it became popular. I agree the 3D glassing thing was just a way for them to sell their mistake lol

aeroegnr said..
You guys are making me wish I had the space to do more composites work. I don't even have a spare bathroom to stink up.

Mark _australia said..
Yeah there is a good point
If there are areas that are not flat enough I do fill. Like if blowing blank off with air rips some EPS balls out but I learned that lesson

Imax1 said..
Id like six pages of how or how not to get my balls got ripped out .Suggestions Hoops ?