Pressure Dings

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

Hey everyone. I just wanted to ask about pressure dings. Ive had my board since the middle of last year and I take good care of it. It's a PU by the way not epoxy. I haven't bumped it into anything, dropped it, damaged it in any way, but I have a bunch of little hair-line cracks in the tail, and the deck has a lot of pressure dings in it. Also the stringer is bulging out a little. I hope all that made sense!
So basically, my question is, does this happen to anyone else's board or is it just me? Thanks in advance!

[dougirwin13]

Sounds like a standard light-construction PU board. They simply aren't designed to last.

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

Hmm thats too bad... Well, I guess it is what it is, and im gonna end up getting a new one someday. I think she still has a lot of waves left in her too.

[dougirwin13]

Oh I'm sure she has!

If you favour light boards this is something to be expected... Unless you get a good perofrmance composite board.

[isaluteyou]

Pu boards always get pressure dings on the deck. And the stringer thing you are talking about is common with me as well. It happens when you get a pressure dent near the stringer and makes the stringer look like its protruding - more often than not this is the result of how i duckdive. Just keep an eye on it and make sure it doesnt pierce through if it does just fix it with a patch no big deal.

Incidentally my epoxies eventual do the same thing. Both get pressure dents although the epoxy is a touch hardier. Almost no board is dent proof and if it is it will suffer from other factors. But tbh of all the board construction i still favor PU as its never let me down

[donhoe]

It sure sucks to see your PU board slowly going bad but they do in time. I really like the Kevlar deck on my new board. It's holding up very well.
It still feels like a PU board to me.

[dougirwin13]

A properly build composite sandwich board won't pressure dent. After a lot of years of abuse it might delam, but not pressure dent

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

Alright. Well, im just glad to know that it is normal. Thanks for responding.

[billie_morini]

It's normal and can be fixed. There are some threads with photos of cracks along and around stringers. It's not such a big deal and it happens on shaper's boards, too. All I'll say about that is, "It happened to me."

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

Ok, good to know im not the only person this is happening to. So this brings up another question. When do you know its the right time to buy a new board? There must be a point where your board looks like a golf ball with cracks in it! Haha.

[NorthMyrtleB]

Right time to buy a new board? When the nose and tail smack you on opposite sides of your head... At the same time!

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

Right time to buy a new board? When the nose and tail smack you on opposite sides of your head... At the same time!

Haha!!! Well i hope that doesn't happen any time soon!

[surfitch]

right time to buy a new board for me is after it starts to delaminate. even if you fix it, the cost of repair and the performance loss after the repair pretty much justify a new board. aside from that, crushed tails or full on fractures. screw it, you know what i just like buying new boards.

[dougirwin13]

Or when the deck is a mass of pressure dents from nose to tail and it has a few meaty dings on the bottom and rails

[Manhattan Beach Grom]

K cool.

[IB_Surfer]

ok, I have to chime in, board construction has a lot to do with it. . As a bigger guy I get my boards double 4 ounce + 6oz on top and double 4oz on bottom.

Standard off the rack pop-outs are single 4oz on bottom with 6oz on top, some even 4oz and 4oz. If you don't like dings, like me, ask for a heavier glass job.

My boards are not much heavier, they are heavier, but not much. But my pressure ding and stringer indentations take a couple of years to start, compared to some other boards I have bought off the rack. So, if you want a longer lasting better looking board go custom and ask for more cloth in the making.

A recent story: I just bought a custom becker. When I went in to order it, they told me it was standard to order 4oz cloth on each size. When I asked for double 4oz on top with single 6oz on bottom (cause I wanted to go a little lighter) the guy looked at me weird and asked "Really? Won't that be too heavy?" So, point is, now a days boards are made to be super light, but rippers do snap them more often than they used to.

Me, I like to enjoy my boards for a long time, I usually keep mine about 4 to 5 years on average, so I asked for them a little heavier so they last longer.

Food for thought...

[isaluteyou]

^^^ yup its one of the benifits of going custom as you can specify the glassing thickness. I order my boards 2 X 4oz on the deck and 1 X 4oz for the bottom.

they told me it was standard to order 4oz cloth on each size

was that a single layer of 4oz???? as i have messed around with a board glassed with a single layer and i could tell right away it would be destroyed very quickly

[donhoe]

2oz Kevlar is as strong as 6oz S glass and less weight.
You could go double 2 oz kevlar on the deck teach haha! That would be stroger then what you like now, and lighter.
http://www.proctorsurf.com/Surf-Boards/ ... stom-epoxy