Ding disaster!!

[floater_jay]

Hey guys, I recently bought a new 6 2" epoxy board and I dinged it last week. I didn't really know until I got out of the water, I think it soaked up some water.
There's a guy repairing it for me now, I'm just wondering will my board lose any of it's performance or integrity even if it's been de-humidified and repaired well?

Boards are so expensive, I'm sure alot of you have experienced the heart sinking feeling if dinging your baby!
nightmare.
share your ding nightmares with me, maybe it'll cheer me up!
cheers

[Kabazz]

Yeah the prices are very deer, it's all worth it after a good surf though

I buy mine second hand...

[MrJoe]

Dinging a board is heart wrenching.

I can't imagine it would have soaked up enough water to make a noticable loss of performance so i wouldn't worry about it.

[surferdude_scarborough]

dings suck!! its ok if you do it yourself but when someone drops your board taking it off the car thats worse. damn parents. should be repairable though.

[O_Danny_Boy]

i dunno, i thought epoxy boards didnt have a foam core so to speak so therefore cant take on water if dinged badly

[dougirwin13]

Oh they have a core al right.

A lot of them are EPS and that sucks H2O like your momma sucks... Erm. Wrong BB, sorry.

They suck water real good.

XPS has other issues and fused EPS is expensive. That about covers all the foams.

Hope the repairer knows enough to dry the core first.

-doug
Compsand.com - The Composite Surfboard Cooperative!

[drowningbitbybit]

share your ding nightmares with me, maybe it'll cheer me up!
cheers

There you go, a dinged epoxy board. And this one didnt get any water in the ding because it was on a plane at the time. Damn you British Airways

I fixed it myself and you can barely see the repair, despite the fact that Brainless Dingways put the hole right on three different colours

[crepuscular]

yeah, really hate dings... you spend couple of hundred bux on the board, and some ass gets in your way with the first time in water, and you be as cranky as me to have the board repaired on the first day.

[O_Danny_Boy]

Oh they have a core al right.

A lot of them are EPS and that sucks H2O like your momma sucks... Erm. Wrong BB, sorry.

They suck water real good.

XPS has other issues and fused EPS is expensive. That about covers all the foams.

Hope the repairer knows enough to dry the core first.

-doug
Compsand.com - The Composite Surfboard Cooperative!

no ones taken the piss out of my momma since school!!

went to a surftech demo and the two dudes said if dinged wont take on water..............ive been had!

[dougirwin13]

Oh traditional Surftechs certainly suck water. And suck it like you wouldnt believe.

Just check out some of the jobs The Board Lady has taken on at
http://www.boardlady.com/.

Of course, now they have started using fused EPS which is as close to waterproof as you can get. But fused EPS boards cost more because the core costs more.

Wish I could lay my hands on fused EPS at regular EPS prices... But it isn't the only aspect of water intrusion that needs to be addressed so I'm not really too worried about it.

-doug
Compsand.com - The Composite Surfboard Cooperative!

[ANZAC]

Dings in ur surfboards?

Pack em' with wax and surf them into the ground.... hehehe

Iv'e been pretty lucky... I havn't dinged a board since I was a grommy.

[crepuscular]

went to a surftech demo and the two dudes said if dinged wont take on water..............ive been had!

think the 2 guys were talking about TL2 boards, because TL boards using EPS as the core, and sucks water like a sponge, TL2 still use EPS as the core, but having extra layers over it to minimise the water being taken after ding

[dougirwin13]

Nah, TL2 uses fused EPS. Which is basically waterproof.

Oh yeah - wax doesnt waterproof dings.

-doug
Compsand.com - The Composite Surfboard Cooperative!

[pkbum]

I m trying to find a new surfboard for my christmas present. haha so far, no progress. Surfboard these days are so expensive! Surfboard that are from Al merrick or like timmy patterson cost huge bucks!

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

maybe the prices are a bit pricey compared to what most of us probably make.. but ya know what.. some people spend 500 on a full snowboard setup.. and still have to pay each year to get towed up a hill! So I feel lucky that my sport is.. buy a board.. buy a wetsuit... surf... thats it. so really we spend less.

[pkbum]

maybe the prices are a bit pricey compared to what most of us probably make.. but ya know what.. some people spend 500 on a full snowboard setup.. and still have to pay each year to get towed up a hill! So I feel lucky that my sport is.. buy a board.. buy a wetsuit... surf... thats it. so really we spend less.

yeah I guess that makes sense... still 500 dollar is a lot money!

[crepuscular]

i spent 1.5k in 3 months on surfing :S

[pkbum]

i spent 1.5k in 3 months on surfing :S

HOLY SHIT

[Hang11]

maybe the prices are a bit pricey compared to what most of us probably make.. but ya know what.. some people spend 500 on a full snowboard setup.. and still have to pay each year to get towed up a hill! So I feel lucky that my sport is.. buy a board.. buy a wetsuit... surf... thats it. so really we spend less.

Mate, that's nothing, I kill one snowboard every two years, and NZ is about double the price of the USA for boards - we get shafted by the importers. Add to that one wife and two kids who both snowboard, and I'm looking at a minimum three sets of boards, boots, and bindings, plus new jackets and pants for the kids who grow too quick, plus season passes for the whole family, every year - it easily ends up costing me NZ$5k a year to snowboard, plus fuel at NZ$50 a time to drive up to the mountains, and I easily go through a set of off road tyres doing it, so that's another NZ$1200. I ride about 30 days a year, so it's a really expensive sport. Chuck in a couple of heli trips and there's a couple more thousand gone, some accommodation if we go somewhere else for a week is another NZ$1000.

Saying that, I've spent tens of thousands on travel to surf, but it is a lot cheaper if you stay local, and I just got 7 years out of my board before it needs replacing.

[floater_jay]

Hey, thanks for all your replies.
I got my board back last week, the guy said that he couldn't repair the board for me because he couldn't get his hands on some resin. Anyway, I went out and bought a tube of clear epoxy ding-repair resin and done it myself.
brought her out today for a surf and it was good as new!
Nightmare over.

anyone here going surfing on christmas day?
I am for one. gonna wear my santa hat, should be interesting!