Learn how to re The best way to Repair little Dings in a Surfboard

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I was surfing with a friend recently and he left the comment his surfboard was starting to get waterlogged. I really couldn't find any visible damage to his plank, so I asked him to show me that the damage. I was surprised to know it had been merely a couple really little dings. Really just tiny holes not much larger than you will make by puncturing the surfboard, say using your pen. It will not focus on larger cracks or larger holes, were only talking about small punctures. Any dings bigger than 50% of their size of a dime are overly large for Sun Cure to get the job done.

My friend had not repaired these tiny holes because he thought it'd mean taking the surfboard into the surf shop to get it repaired. He would then be without the surfboard for a couple of days or simply he was just too darned economical to really have the surfboard repaired.

There is a very easy to use product on the market to repair modest dings in your surfboard. It is so straightforward, you can't wreck a repair using this substance, and also the bonus is that it will not actually cost ten dollars. It is known as Sun Cure plus just one tube of the stuff is enough to accomplish about 10 small ding fixes. I keep mine in the refrigerator and it is still good after per year. After we ended surfing that afternoon , we stopped in at the SURFSHOP at Dominical Costa Rica and he also bought a tube.

On the ride home, he was asking me just how to accomplish the repair and he was certain I was leaving something out. A day later he showed me that the surfboard and has been laughing because it was so easy.

Here are the steps to easy fix using Sun Cure:

Ensure you are in a shady, ventilated area. The shade is indeed the wax onto your surfboard doesn't melt as you're doing so repair. Also, you can't do so on each day when it is raining, but it's still possible to do it on an overcast day, the Sun Heal only takes longer to wash.



Gently sand the area that you need to repair. Now if your ding isn't big, go easy here as you really don't need to use significantly more than is necessary to fill the gap.

Once you've softly sanded the location, wash it clean with a clean dry cloth.

Find an wooden Popsicle stick to employ the Sun Cure (or something else that you do not mind throwing away when your finished ). You don't have to combine this, it's ready to go out of this tube. Open up the tube of Sun Cure and put a small dab the rod. Only spread surfing in cornwall into the hole. Try to make it as smooth as possible to eradicate sanding as it's tender.

Carry your surfboard out in to sunlight and angle the surfboard so that the area that you want to harden is facing at the direction of this sun.

Place a towel down over the rest of your surfboard and provided that you never neglect to get your surfboard in a few minutes, your wax will still be fine on your surfboard.

When it's a sunny day the Sun Cure is going to probably be hard in mere five minutes. If it's tight sunlight you give it to 8 minutes also whether it's a muddy day provide it 10 to 20 minutes.

Once it's hardened, take your surfboard from this sun and it's really ready for a light sanding to get it smooth and nice. If you never try so part, there are usually hard little bits that stick up. I was in a hurry and didn't bother sanding it down. The repair was one of the railings as well as the whole semester that I was outside, I kept hitting my hands on this small sharp bump. Take the 60 minutes to gently sand your repair down once it's done curing in sunlight.

That's it, you along with your surfboard are ready going to the shore, unless of course you went and did something else while it was drying from sunlight and forgot about it. If that happened you'll have come out to find a more soggy, waxy mess on your surfboard. Now you will need to add the step of clearing up the mess and re-applying a new coat of wax into your surfboard. Take my advice, when you've put your surfboard outside from sunlight do not go doing something else while it's drying, don't even answer your telephone number. I learned this the hard way.

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