;( Cracked nose, is this fixable?

[xleoyangx]

Hello guys i was wondering if this board is fixable, i live in Fremont and probably will take the board to the Velocity skimboard shop to try and fix it if its doable. Anyone have any insight on if this is fixable? or if there are any home remedies for this lil guy. Any information will help out. Thanks a lot everyone.

-leo

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[Manny]

Contact Velocity. They would do the best work on it. Don't do a home fix if you have the money for a professional one.

[SDSkim]

dude just chop it off and make a square

[xleoyangx]

haha yeah, i was wondering if they would deem it unfixable then itd be a waste of time going there... ill email/call them and ask before i head over to their shop... but if they do think its any good im just going to vise epoxy it together.

maybe... squares are pretty square.

[lucasskim]

fixable. that happened to the tail of one of my boards and it's fine now.

[Jim Gordon]

Hello guys i was wondering if this board is fixable, i live in Fremont and probably will take the board to the Velocity skimboard shop to try and fix it if its doable. Anyone have any insight on if this is fixable? or if there are any home remedies for this lil guy. Any information will help out. Thanks a lot everyone.

-leo

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That's not too bad, it's when it breaks in the middle....that is when it's hard to fix.

[superdupefritzy]

Couldn't you just put epoxy resin and glue it back together and put some fiberglass on top or something like that?

[xleoyangx]

yeah, but i guess filling it with epoxy and clamping it down would cost more than getting it reparied? i dont have any fiberglass or epoxy

[Hank Snapp]

Contact the manufacturer. While you could probably fix it to some degree, when the foam snaps along with the fiberglass the board is pretty much done i.e. even after you fix it, it's probably going to snap there again unfortunately.

[Jim Gordon]

Here's what I would do......First check and see if the crack goes down to the foam, if it does you need to open it up a little to get the resin down in there. You need something like the point of a knife to make it open a little wider, don't go down into the foam though. Next get some epoxy resin or glue (same thing) at the hardware store, and mix it with some fiberglass chopped up into little pieces. Without the fiberglass it most likely will crack open again. Work it into the crack and let it stick up a little, when dry sand flat./

Use this mix ^ epoxy & chopped up fiberglass, I even used this stuff when I did aircraft repair.

[xleoyangx]

hey thanks a lot Jim I was looking at your how to fix messed up wood boards thread I'm looking through that kind of stuff now to figure out what to do... if you could link me other repair guides that'd be great I've looked on Google and what not and so far what you said right here is more help then all of the research I've done Haha. also do you know how much it'd cost to have it professionally done?

[Jim Gordon]

I don't know how much they charge, I have always fixed my own skim/surfboards. I don't know of any repair guides, just google it. If you do try to fix it yourself, you got to get the ding dry first or the resin won't stick or dry. Then open the ding up and get the resin down deep inside the ding.
With rubber gloves push the ding back together and the extra resin will come out, with paper towels or rags clean up the mess and put wax paper on the top & bottom of ding and C-clamp the ding back together (you may need to put a piece of wood on the top & bottom to help hold it together.
Sometime you can just use masking tape to help hold the ding together. It's hard to tell someone how to fix a ding because I might leave something out. Anyway just make sure the wood and resin have wax paper to keep them apart. I'm falling asleep, so I hope I made myself clear, if not ask me tomorrow.

[mjs]

how does that even happen

[SJskim]

^i was about to ask the exact same thing

[xleoyangx]

I don't know how that happened either... I didn't even know it happened untilled I went to rinse off... I guess it hit the sand on my way back up and bent the nose causing the upper layer to crack....

[xleoyangx]

Hey just a quick question... i just got my hands on the materials to fix this board, why i havent done it its not my board but this is an epoxy board right?

[lucasskim]

it doesn't matter, just use epoxy for every repair. it works best ALL TIMES

[Jim Gordon]

it doesn't matter, just use epoxy for every repair. it works best ALL TIMES

Yes, lucasskim is right. But if you never did a repair I wouldn't. That is a hard repair even for me! lol

[xleoyangx]

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got to fixing this board these are the first steps i took to fixing the board.
1. i opened up the board so i could get epoxy as well as fiberglass bits as deep in there as i could.
2. i mixed the epoxy and fiberglass into a small paper cup and then used Popsicle sticks to push the goo as far in as a could.
3. next i taped cardboard to my c clamps and clamped them as hard as i could
4. let cure overnight
5. chiseled all excess epoxy off and sanded it down to what it looks like now



Hello guys i was wondering if this board is fixable, i live in Fremont and probably will take the board to the Velocity skimboard shop to try and fix it if its doable. Anyone have any insight on if this is fixable? or if there are any home remedies for this lil guy. Any information will help out. Thanks a lot everyone.

-leo

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[WSMassiv]

shoulda let a pro handle it

[mjs]

LOL. way to much epoxy

[xleoyangx]

yeah i know i didnt know how much was too much so i put a shit ton LOL... im gonna add a layer of fiberglass and epoxy over the cracked area...
i didnt do too bad of a job did i? i have no experience whatsoever with boards :(

[shred_or_die]

if it works for you and youre happy with it then you did fine