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wynsurfer
Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 940
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a way to test if the box leaks? If it does'nt no need to replace right? Thanks U2 and others! |
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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I way I test for water in the board
use a plastic sandwich baggie or sheet of clear floppy like a notebook page
around the suspect area, tape the plastic, enough to cover the area, in your case where the cracks are, or entire box.
set the board in the sun, if it has water it should show condensation from the leak on the inside of the plastic, should occur within a half hour or so, doesn't take all day. _________________ K4 fins
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:53 am Post subject: |
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This may help. this fin I made from 2 fins, the bottom base is one, other the fin part, I used a router to make a home in the base and set the fin in the hole, using epoxy and fiberglass & carbon.
prior to this repair, the only slightly clear carbon is visible,
where the 2 attached its sound, except the lighter layers of material, which cracked, flaked is more like it. I thought the damage was limited to the rear, but can see from the photo that the leading edge has a hair line crack.
the point is, laying s-glass, fiberglass, carbon over , withOUT a support joint, will product some result, but would probably crack again. This kinda layover, lap over repair, is not going to be as strong as the original. _________________ K4 fins
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