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 | | From: | googlegroups at windsurfingcuracao.com | | Subject: | Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 05:15:11 -0800 |
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 | I hate booties. Can't stand them.
However, my board is now so slippery that I can't sail without them.
Since there is no ready available re-deck kit available where
I live, I was hoping that someone could provide me with a custom
solution.
In the past I have used epoxy with salt. Which gives temporary
tracktion, then turns brown and is slippery again.
Does anyone know, what kind of resin I can use and what material I
can add to it to create tracktion. Preferably something transparent.
Greetings
Ingmar
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| | From: | Tsunami | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:53:47 +0800 |
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| Or as a cheap alternative, (or if it blows too much for you to take your
board out of use for a day) just use surf wax from the front footstraps thru
to the mast track
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> I hate booties. Can't stand them.
>
> However, my board is now so slippery that I can't sail without them.
> Since there is no ready available re-deck kit available where
> I live, I was hoping that someone could provide me with a custom
> solution.
>
> In the past I have used epoxy with salt. Which gives temporary
> tracktion, then turns brown and is slippery again.
>
> Does anyone know, what kind of resin I can use and what material I
> can add to it to create tracktion. Preferably something transparent.
> Greetings
>
> Ingmar
>
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| | From: | Craig (gsogh) Goudie | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:52:51 -0700 |
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| Well, you can also use sugar, though I like salt better. Your original
technique is probably the best, but here are some additions. Lay down
a thick coat of epoxy(don't forget to tape off all the areas you don't
want epoxy on),
sprinkle salt, laydown another coat while still wet, sprinkle once
more. Let dry,
lightly sand the top. Run water over the deck until you dissolve the
salt. Go
sailing barefoot.
Other techniques. You can use some grit other than salt/sugar. I've
used washed sand
(not very pretty, but very permanent), and acrylic dust (you can buy
this stuff in bulk
from a plastics store) which is very pretty and permanent, but not as
gritty.
You can laminate it in with clear acrylic paint (which doesn't yellow as
badly as epoxy in sun)
but is not as pliable, or you can laminate it in with white acrylic
paint if your board is white.
You could also use polyester resin if you have a polyester board, if
fact, if you have no core breaches
you can even use polyester resin on epoxy boards if you prepare the
surface properly.
I think my most permanent solution was sand sprayed in acrylic, it
wasn't pretty, but it lasted
the life of the board. Next most durable was acrylic dust.
If you don't want the yellowing don't use epoxy.
-Craig
googlegroups@windsurfingcuracao.com wrote:
> I hate booties. Can't stand them.
>
> However, my board is now so slippery that I can't sail without them.
> Since there is no ready available re-deck kit available where
> I live, I was hoping that someone could provide me with a custom
> solution.
>
> In the past I have used epoxy with salt. Which gives temporary
> tracktion, then turns brown and is slippery again.
>
> Does anyone know, what kind of resin I can use and what material I
> can add to it to create tracktion. Preferably something transparent.
> Greetings
>
> Ingmar
--
Craig (Go Short or Go Home!) Goudie
Sailing the high desert lakes of Utah on my:
RRD 298, RRD TT and Cross M 8'2" with
Sailworks/Naish Sails and Rec Composites Fins
Sailing the Gorge on my: 9'1" RRD Freeride,
8'3" Logosz Squish, 8'0" Hitech IBM with
Sailworks/Northwave Sails and Curtis Fins
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| | From: | Mike F | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:49:21 -0800 |
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| Transparent, schmansparent! Slap some full deck pads on that puppy and the
skids are over, you'll think you're walking on your living room carpet, and
your knees and ankles will last much longer. I now have my custom boards
build with no non-skid, just pads to the mast and gloss forward of that.
PLUSH! I add pads to any OTC boards I buy. The feeling and traction are just
plain wonderful.
Or you can look like everybody else and put up with hard, grinding,
temporary, colorless, cartilage-and bone-crunching, milky non-skid.
Mike \m/
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| | From: | Brian Sangeorzan | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:35:52 -0500 |
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| Mike,
Where do you find that foam deck material?
Brian
"Mike F" wrote in message
news:3MSFd.5057$mL.2023@fe04.lga...
> Transparent, schmansparent! Slap some full deck pads on that puppy and the
> skids are over, you'll think you're walking on your living room carpet,
and
> your knees and ankles will last much longer. I now have my custom boards
> build with no non-skid, just pads to the mast and gloss forward of that.
> PLUSH! I add pads to any OTC boards I buy. The feeling and traction are
just
> plain wonderful.
>
> Or you can look like everybody else and put up with hard, grinding,
> temporary, colorless, cartilage-and bone-crunching, milky non-skid.
>
> Mike \m/
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| | From: | Mike F | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:12:43 -0800 |
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| http://www.nsipadz.com/windsfg.htm .
I buy it by the sheet (they have many colors and styles and thicknesses and
textures), trim it to suit each board, and glue it on. I prefer it to
non-skid by a huge margin for many reasons.
Mike \m/
"Brian Sangeorzan" wrote in message
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> Mike,
> Where do you find that foam deck material?
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| | From: | Dan Weiss | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:55:11 -0500 |
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| Or, you can use clear coat car "paint" and dust with foam dust available
directly from Fiberglass Supply in Bingen, WA. www.fibergasssuply.com I
think. Anyway, spray on a thin coat of this clear coat and follow
immediately with a reasonable amount of dust thrown from some distance so as
to get a more even application.
The clear coat never yellows, it's much less brittle than the two-part epoxy
car paints, you don't need to match colors, and it adheres to most plastics
just fine. The dust is just the sort of deck grip that comes on many
production boards from the factory. It gives ideal grip, is pretty durable
without tearing apart your feet and looks great.
Just sand the surface, mask off carefully and get to it.
-Dan
"Mike F" wrote in message
news:3MSFd.5057$mL.2023@fe04.lga...
> Transparent, schmansparent! Slap some full deck pads on that puppy and the
> skids are over, you'll think you're walking on your living room carpet,
> and
> your knees and ankles will last much longer. I now have my custom boards
> build with no non-skid, just pads to the mast and gloss forward of that.
> PLUSH! I add pads to any OTC boards I buy. The feeling and traction are
> just
> plain wonderful.
>
> Or you can look like everybody else and put up with hard, grinding,
> temporary, colorless, cartilage-and bone-crunching, milky non-skid.
>
> Mike \m/
>
>
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| | From: | WARDOG | | Subject: | Re: Redecking a slippery board | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:57:19 -0800 |
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| Hi Ingmar,
The best re-deck kit that I've found is the one by Nautix...pricing is
$30 USD...
http://surfingsports.com/images/nautix_redeck.jpg
More often than not, however, we take our boards that need more traction
to Eva "The Boardlady"...and she uses the Nautix kit, or her own custom
mixture...
http://boardlady.com/repairs.htm
http://boardlady.com/maintenance.htm
She has an active forum where you can get very detailed answers to your
questions...
http://www.boardlady.com/forums/index.php
WARDOG
http://surfingsports.com
googlegroups@windsurfingcuracao.com wrote:
> I hate booties. Can't stand them.
>
> However, my board is now so slippery that I can't sail without them.
> Since there is no ready available re-deck kit available where
> I live, I was hoping that someone could provide me with a custom
> solution.
>
> In the past I have used epoxy with salt. Which gives temporary
> tracktion, then turns brown and is slippery again.
>
> Does anyone know, what kind of resin I can use and what material I
> can add to it to create tracktion. Preferably something transparent.
> Greetings
>
> Ingmar
>
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