Solar res or full repair
Alternatively, recommendations on affordable repairers around ulladulla or Torquay (road tripping to WA) ...
Try Kierke Bierke in Ulla,if he dosent do repairs he wil put you in touch with some one that does
heyo! by the sounds of it, not too big a ding? solares with good surface preparation after a bit of dryout time would be fine? There are a few really good youtube vids on fixing dings, theres a guy who has some good techniques:
&index=2&list=FLSz7Kb-ll7l9qPoj_yONB5QI am a bit 'relaxed' with my dings, i dont care about the asthetics, just get them water tight and go surf again. *surface preparation is most important!* a bit of gladwrap over the solares during cure will stop the stickyness of the final surface. yours in surfing, dumpy!
Edit: sorry, to answer your questions, drying out time - epoxys seem to take longer than polyeurothane, i give the epoxy a week or so and monitor around the ding for dried salt as an indicator, then wipe it off & watch some more. I have done quite a few solarez dings, and they stay clear and are pretty robust. A clean dry surface sanded at about 200grit is the best chance for the resin to stick to the board. the only drawback is that it wont be the same color as the board, and it might be a bit heavier than a professional q-cell colored job. But its a small ding, so if you dont mind a bit of devaluation of the stick.. give it a go!
Cheers Udo, by the sounds of Dumpy's response and both that it is only a small ding, and I am still being a tight ass, I reckon solar res should have it covered...
Thanks Dumpy, yeah I'm not too precious about the appearance nor the resale value. Great ytube clip. I've got a beater board to have another crack at (no pun intended) with a home repair job.
Up until now I've been pretty lucky with dings. I've either been riding a second hand board that don't mind the thrashing, been close to sure when it's happened so taking water was not much of a problem, or been in Indo where it's fixed up for less than $10 within a day...
Yesterday it was fairly pumping south of the Gong and my wife used my board as a step up. As she was taking off someone had a scrambled paddled straight up the face toward her, she pulled back but couldn't avoid the nose of the board hitting the belly of the board. On this occasion it was a board less than 6 months old, more than 100m paddle back in and going to cost more than $10...
I'm a total amateur at repairing dings myself, am a bit of a tight ass at the moment, and wondering about a couple of things. Firstly, is using solar res (which I already have) a suitable alternative (short and/or long term) to a professional job, ie are there any draw backs? Secondly, given the length of time before getting the board out of the water, how long might the board need to dry out before working some solar res in there (if that's the option to go with).
To give an idea of the dimensions of the ding, two chocolate bullets would sit flush if placed end to end. But I wasn't going to consider this as an option...
Thoughts?