Is my board still Watertight?

[mamero]

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Lacquer paint, it may interact and cause bubbles. Paint from a hardware store in shaker cans, costly ones are better , but should not be more than $5, suitable for plastics , should be on the label, any Rustoleum .
West Systems have a $20 repair kit.

Monster Traction is good enough for me, spray.
Re Dek,Amazing GOOP, SuperCo Traction are some others.

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Committed.

I've sanded down and cut out the cracked area. Also sanded back the paint to expose the area under a slight suspect dimple. The dimple area seems to be for the most part OK. The area with the slight dimple does not show signs of cracking and it feels solid. There is a slight bit of discoloration maybe. My feeling is that slight dimply area can simply be layered over top as is. Thoughts.

Regarding the main damaged area. As you see, the core beneath the damaged area seams intact. There is no apparent de-lamination and fortunately the crazy glue has note eaten away the foam core.

There is some dampness in the foam still so I'll let it vent a few days before I start to seal it up.

For those in the know, now what? What's the best way to deal with the exposed core and that small hole. Am I OK to directly epoxy and layer up a couple layers of carbon or glass? Or do I need to fill that hole with something first? As you can see by the ruler, its only about 1/2 x 3/4 inches in size and it is not very deep.

The photos of my new board like this makes me sad. However, I know from past board repairs you need to make it worse before you can make it better. Hopefully the making it worse part is done.

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The dept of the area is whats critical. I would probably make it deeper, to erraticate any damage .

Since I have all these materials, fill the hole with pour foam, 8lb version.

This could be overkill to carry out, to purchase this, the below should be fine.
Otherwise layer , s-glass 3.7 oz
or e glass 5.6oz

Carbon 4.8oz.
You will sand away 1 entire layer. So glass, carbon glass.
OR glass glass glass ,in 2 structured layers , at 2 different times.
DO NOT use Kevlar, a pain to work with.

You will need to overlap the hole onto the top deck, difficult to get a even plane.

DO not use a quick or fast setting epoxy, SLO , or tropical to not melt the EPS core, IF possible. Or make even more steps , and be stingy with epoxy.

3M Marine filler as a top coat, paint with primer first, white ,or use paint primer combo. DO not rush. Plan to sand , with wet paper, plan to see some bubbles in the epoxy, 3M fixes this.

MORE THAN 1 way to bake a cake, follow suggestion that sounds best/reasonable. Dont expect the outcome to be cosmetically perfect, soundness is your friend

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Would using a shop vac to suck out the water be a good a bad Idea to accelerate the drying in the damaged area?

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Pm me your email address , I have issues typing a long reply then lose it on this forum

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