EPS basic info?

[tomcat360]

lotta questions tonight....the brain began to tick again

so I have begun looking into the board building again, and I felt wrong posting a really stupid question on swaylocks.

So for EPS, people make it sound like you've gotta buy these huge, 1-2 foot thick blocks and shape/cut them down.

can't you get sheets of the stuff? and hopefully alot cheaper than those blocks (people were saying like 300-700 bucks for varying sizes)

so if you can get sheets, can you glue them with weights on it, so you get a rocker to it, then just shape it like a clark? if so, what glue? I thought I heard gorrilla glue....

[sinistapenguin]

You can get sheets and you can glue them together.

The site I looked at suggested that you could use epoxy instead of a wooden stringer, so you could use epoxy to glue sheets together!

Here's the site I looked at!:

http://www.surfersteve.com/introduction.htm

Cheers

[tomcat360]

do you know if its epoxy glue or epoxy resin?

[deathfrog]

check out this thread...

http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.c ... ASC;mh=25;

it's my first board in which I glued up with little tiny sheets, tacky glue and a 1/4" pine stringer.

I'd use gorilla glue, seems best for eps, or some other polyurethane glue, shapes really easily, waterproof, and no hard glue line. And it fills in any voids between the foam.

and to save foam. don't glue up in like a giant block, but instead try to follow the rocker line of the board your gunna shape, and then clamp it or press it somehow, then glue that to the stringer.

[tomcat360]

I was thinking this-

get some thin pieces, like >1". glue them together using epoxy or gorrila glue, with weights on top. then get some drywall screws or something, and then screw it up all around.

stole it from a skate deck making thing I did, do yall think it'll work?

and whats the deal of XPS vs. EPS?

by the way, deathfrog, happy shaping anniversary!

[deathfrog]

ha thanx

no screws

they'll f you up

[enzosdad]

Last time I checked, the EPS boards DON"T HAVE STRINGERS in them like the poly-foam do.

Just my .02

[tomcat360]

umm...havent check swaylocks in a while, have you

[deathfrog]

uhh yeah they do...

surftechs don't though