hydrodynamix

How do you do it?

Sugarcoat is easy

EDIT: oops wrong thread. May work though.....

U can buy a new grip from Surf/Sail for $29.95. Mark will give you the lowdown on how to do it. I have done 6 now - too easy. Carbon is a bit tougher as u can't use acetone to remove old glue remnants, still easy.

AB...

spare fin covers are the same material so if its a small repair its much quicker, cheaper and easier to to use them..

acetone might not effect the cured epoxy in a carbon boom but its better not to risk it unless your know an industrial chemist who could guarantee its safe..

Fair call Fletchk, I was not 100% if there was a reaction between acetone and the resin top coat that some carbon booms have. As I am unaware what resin is used I have steered clear just in case. Thanks for the nfo.

AB....

barn said...

spare fin covers are the same material so if its a small repair its much quicker, cheaper and easier to to use them..

acetone might not effect the cured epoxy in a carbon boom but its better not to risk it unless your know an industrial chemist who could guarantee its safe..

Barn-I like your thinking here, because it is only a small patch where my hand rests that is the problem. Might be easier not to do the whole thing...What glue do you recommend for the job?

Cheers, Jens

Jens said...

barn said...

spare fin covers are the same material so if its a small repair its much quicker, cheaper and easier to to use them..

acetone might not effect the cured epoxy in a carbon boom but its better not to risk it unless your know an industrial chemist who could guarantee its safe..

Barn-I like your thinking here, because it is only a small patch where my hand rests that is the problem. Might be easier not to do the whole thing...What glue do you recommend for the job?

Cheers, Jens

yeah its better to catch it peeling quickly and much less hassle to strip problem areas rather than the whole boom!!.. Any old contact adhesive will do, though there probably is high quality stuff on the market.. only stuff I have experience using the label was in Arabic, not sure what it was!...

hard to explain typing, and ill use any excuse to express myself on PAINT.. its important that the lip is removed, and after its dry the excess grip can be removed with course sandpaper

barn said...
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Don't make the angle on the edge too shallow. You want something like 45 degrees to give a clean edge to trim and sand to. You push the overlapping side firmly into it so it sticks well. If the overlap is too shallow the edge ends up a bit thin and vague. About half way between the edges shown in the picture.

It's easy to cut out sections and re-grip those bits. It looks kind of cool too if you use contrasting colours. Sort of like an old car with different coloured doors. (Look at me! Hard core dude. I don't need no freakin colour matched boom! Yo!)

Lovely art work Barn! A picture's worth a 1000 words-I'll have a go at it on the weekend.

Cheers, jens

I regripped my carbon boom last year following the instructions here:

http://www.calema.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=944

I didn't use the carpet square to spread the glue though, just the tube. The regripping worked really well and is still in place after much use.

The hardest part is getting all the old grip off - it probably took me three hours of careful scraping and cutting then cleaning all the old glue off the boom. B..stard of a job actually. Applying the glue and new grip was the easy part and no bubbles or failures to stick.

I used some eucalyptus oil to get rid of the old glue, then some metho to get rid of any traces of euca oil before applying the new glue. Worked fine.

Just buy a kit from your local windsurf shop.

Also, previous discussions here:

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Boom-Regripping/?whichpage=-1&REPLY_ID=291442

Or you could just use an old teak boom like in my avatar - no special grip needed on those!