I dinged the nose of my tabou 3s?? and thought I would fix it myself.

i bought a surfboard repair kit, mixed up the resin, added some q cel and some foam and used it to fill the foam back to a level where I could glass over it.

It ate my board! The tabou's foam just melted away. So I removed the resin before it set.

I now have a nose with no foam at all.

why did this happen?

Did you use Epoxy Resin?

Nope. It's polyester resin

Pavlova

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king of the point said..
Pavlova

Looks like lemon meringue pie

Marshmallow !

Did you use any of those Chinese berries !

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Yuppy said..
Nope. It's polyester resin

I could be wrong but I reckon thats your problem. Polyester likes eating polystyrene.

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PKenny said..

Yuppy said..
Nope. It's polyester resin

I could be wrong but I reckon thats your problem. Polyester likes eating polystyrene.

Where do you buy epoxy resin?

A chandlery or online from Boatcraft Pacific.

OMG Yuppy how many board repair threads are there here? that say don't use polyester resin (or don't listen to bloody Bunnings employees who say surfboard repair kit = windsurf = SUP etc)

All is not lost though.
You can build up that big void with any HD polystyrene or normal surfboard core foam. Especially as the bottom laminate is intact and gives u a guide.
Cut it to fit as close as possible, butter it well with epoxy resin and q-cell mix and fit it. Then shape it with a sanding block and glass over (4 oz x 3 layers with epoxy will be kewl).

More foam and epoxy and some labor doh!

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Yuppy said..
Nope. It's polyester resin

Ouchy !. Oh well. I've seen worse. At least it's the tip of the nose and easy to repair. Before you do anything else, read the boardlady web site:

boardlady.com/repairbasics.htm

mark

im embarrassed to say I didn't read the tin. "not for epoxy boards"

i just beleived SHQ sold me the right stuff

^^^^

Hey Yuppy, you should have walked a bit further, the yacht/boating shop behind SHQ sell Epoxy resins, glass, etc, etc. Everything you'll need. Correction, everything you would have needed.

^^^ SHQ stands for...?

(pretty sure it isn't surfboard)

That's ok, I did that too... when I was 14 and I thought that epoxy resin was too expensive and polyester can't be that bad. Wrong!

In my own experience, you won't do it again. I can still remember that moment

You should have taken a clinic in board repair as well !

not too bad, just get a piece of high density foam and rebuild the missing part, then fiberglass over. Make sure to sand away the paint on the area around so it will stick properly...

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powersloshin said..

You should have taken a clinic in board repair as well !

not too bad, just get a piece of high density foam and rebuild the missing part, then fiberglass over. Make sure to sand away the paint on the area around so it will stick properly...

Gold

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ejmack said..
Hey Yuppy, you should have walked a bit further, the yacht/boating shop behind SHQ sell Epoxy resins, glass, etc, etc. Everything you'll need. Correction, everything you would have needed.

Ejmack

Good one. Many thanks. I'll drop in there tomorrow.

Fyi its called www.anchor-marine.com.au/

SHQ just sent me a message offering to repair the nose for me free of charge.

We all make mistakes. Its how we fix our mistakes that counts. Good service SHQ!

But I'm going to attemp this repair myself.

just be aware - You can still do it (melt the foam) with an epoxy kit if you make the mix a bit hot and go straight onto EPS foam - first hand experience watching the inside of my old 104 freewave melting before my eyes when i removed some fin boxes

(after turning into a Quad)

How embarrassment

Easy way to make a hollow board

This is why yuppies generally pay someone else to do it

Just out of curiosity did you tell shq what you were repairing or did you just ask for a "board repair kit"?

??????
I'm glad you can appreciate hot chick sales assistants, and totally lose all train of thought, happens to me all the time, ya getting old, but classic.

Out of interest, how new was the 3S? And how did you "ding"the nose?

To prevent mistake number 2 may I suggest you swap the multi-bake paper for glad-wrap or peel ply ?

Love the 3s.
Catapult took out the nose

I'm back on track.

Filled up hole with epoxy resin and qcell.

Sanded and shaped q cell. Very easy.

Added 3 layers of cloth with epoxy resin



Then sanded it down