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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!johnlake
- From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
- Subject: Re: Board Snappage!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.064824.2644@microsoft.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 06:48:24 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <C198EJ.8yG@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan25.101209.29609@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan25.101209.29609@gdr.bath.ac.uk> mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf) writes:
- >In the referenced article, leif@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Leif Eric Johnson) writes:
- >> The real drag was, that was my newest board, purchased in October ('92) I
- >>think. A 6'4" Campbell Bonzer design, almost no dings, full front and tail
- >>astro-deck patches. I'm seriously bummed! So, anyone know if I can at least
- >>somehow remove and re-use what's left of the astro-deck?
- >>
- >
- >Don't bail on the board! You can glass it back together. I've seen
- >people do it at Mundaca, Spain where boards get broken all of the time
- >and replacements are way too exspensive. Strip off the old glass around
- >the break, laminate the board together with strong glue, then glass over
- >the break with extra-strong glass. You'll be amazed at how nice it
- >can turn out -- if you do it right.
- >
-
- Also something that helps the board keep it's strength is a trick that
- that my buddy Al who owns The Surf Shop up here taught me, is to take
- a couple of popsicle sticks and put them on either side of stringer at the
- break (buried into the foam) and then re-glass it (instant super stringer).
- Of course this will add a bit of extra weight, but it usually works pretty
- good (the whole process). I don't know if this is common practice, but Al
- taught me this a number of years ago when I broke my first board. I know
- who has the board and it's still ridable. Not one of these boards that All
- has fixed this way has ever broke in the same place again.
-
- If ya don't care about fixing the board and can afford a replacement, they
- make great wall hangers. I have the back 3 feet of a 7'10" that I broke
- about 5 years ago (the nose just disappeared somewhere with the tide) and
- I cut out a perfect little 8" by 10" square down to the foam and replaced
- it with a picture of the place I broke it at that was taken on the same
- day I broke the board. It makes a great picture frame. (ooops correction,
- I meant to say I placed the picture in the underside of the board not the
- deck, but I guess that it's not really that important).
-
- On a board breaking note, one of my friends and his wife just got from
- 5 months in Mexico and one of the last places he surfed was Puerto Escondido
- and he surfed it for a couple of days at a solid 18 foot faces. He said
- that the barrels were sooooooooo big that he would just pull in and be able
- to look around inside cause the lip was throwing out so far. He's got
- loads of pictures from the whole trip. Too bad I don't have a scanner
- yet!
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- (Brother) John H. Lake
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