Surfing Waves

Hey everyone,

I made a mistake, but anyway... I had a few dings on my PU board that needed to be fixed for a long time. So 2 days ago I finally managed to get to it. As I have done a fair bit of surfboard repairs, I did have all materials needed, except catalyst... So when I prepared my board I realised that I have resin, qcell, but pretty much empty bottle of catalyst (only a drop of it on the bottom of the bottle). Because I already was sort of half way through, I decided to continue mixing my resin with that drop of catalyst as it usually needs about 1% of catalyst anyway. So I mixed my resin, added qcell, achieved required thickness and applied it to my dings.

Ok.. now 2 days later I see it is still soft, while usually it hardens within 24 hours. xxxxx! Obviously it wasn't enough catalyst in the mix. I know I made a mistake and should have waited till next morning to go to surf shop to get more catalyst, but coz I was lazy and half way through I didn't... My bad..

So now my question is - does anyone know if it hardens eventually? Because I am so lazy again, I would wait for another few days or even a week until it hardens rather than go to surf shop and redo the job...

If anyone had similar experience it would be great to share Thanks!

P.S I called my nearest shaper and he laughed at me, but said he has no idea as he never did any sort of that mistake

How deep is the ding fill ? Is there fiberglass cloth on top of the q-cell layer ?

Would you wait years for it to harden? I would get some catalyst and scoop it out and redo it.

waikikikichan wrote:How deep is the ding fill ? Is there fiberglass cloth on top of the q-cell layer ?

not yet as qcell is still soft

oldmansurfer wrote:Would you wait years for it to harden? I would get some catalyst and scoop it out and redo it.

yes agreed. 3 days later pretty much no change ahaha... so it probably will take forever to dry... if ever so will have to redo the job. oh well lesson learned thanks everyone anyways