I know I keep asking about board repair tips, and they're all great but I've got a real problem now...

I bought some Ocean & Earth UV Cure EPOXY resin to fix the nose of my board. It was a fair sized damaged area so thought I'd fill the area with some fast setting epoxy then once it was dry build up to the original profile with a stronger glass sheet. Well I put the sun cure epoxy on the board and left it in the sun for a couple of hours (with the plug removed). I got back after work and found the epoxy still very tacky and worse still it seemed to have thinned in the sun and ran all over my board (right over a load of masking tape...

4 days later and it's still tacky, Ocean & Earth have offered to send me another tube in case it was faulty, but they have no answer to how i can get the old stuff off!

So do I:

1. try to remove it with acetone
2. try to remove it with a blade of some sort
3. leave it and glass over the top and hope for the best
4. force Ocean & Earth to pay for a professional board repairer to clear up the mess?

I've used the polyester kit on surfboards for a quick fix and it's been great. I thought the epoxy version would be a great windsurfing quick fix option....

Any help, as always, greatly appreciated!

I have had the same problem with the UV curing resins: works well with the polyester resin (sets in minutes in the sun) but terrible results with the epoxy version (took about a week to set). Not sure what brand it was.

Now I just use the 2 part epoxy putty for quick repairs instead: it is cheap, easily available in hardware stores, easy to work with and always sets quickly. You can also get a version of the epoxy putty that sets underwater in case you want to get straight back into sailing.

I would use a utility knife to scrape off all of the unset resin. I wouldn't plaster over the top as it may never set.

It probably only had a few hours each day in the sun as the courtyard didn't get sun all day.

If you have a white board you can spray over the repair using a can of white epoxy paint, alternatively you can try to match it with a can of car touch up paint but this is not so robust.

The epoxy putty is very tough to sand so try to get the repair as flush to the board surface as possible.

I had this problem once fixing my board, I think due to faulty catalyst. If you can get O&E to fix it, great, but you will have a problem proving that it wasn't your fault (ie incorrect ratio of epoxy to catalyst).

I got a disc sander with an old disc and just sanded it. It was not easy because it clogged the disc. Depends on how tacky your epoxy is. Try putting a heater next to it for a day or so.

So has Crash lived up to his name?

Kremlin,

They're sending me a new pack out as we speak so hopefully it works this time!!

Mark is bang on the money, if you're repairing a big ding use West system 105 with 206 hardener. For small dings I just use 'aqua need it', it's the two part epoxy putty you can get at Bunnings that sets in water ;) What ever you do DO NOT put polyester resin anywhere near a polystyrene cored board or you can say goodnight to your core; you'll be left with an eggshell and a throughly rooted board

If it's just a small area you want to fill 5 min araldite sets reasonably clear. (araldite is epoxy).

AS said acetone disolves foam, but it also isn't much good disolving epoxy!
Try vinegar for cleaning up the excess on the glass area. I don't think it will damage the foam, but I'd keep it away from the repair area, could make a big mess.

Yar yar Comrades Mark and Easty are very much on the money for certain when speaking of repairings for big dings... I only use the epoxy suncure for small 'travel' dings.
This sola cure epoxy is of much better quality than aquaneed from bunnings in my opinion.
Aqua need does not set 'fully' hard - by this I is menaing if it is using him on fins it not stay as the flex from fin see aquaneed peel off... not so with epoxy suncure.
You must be making sure sun is out when using of this suncure. I fix small chip in board within 3 minute (tacky) and good for sanding of him within 6 min.
Also epoxy suncure is much betterer for of the sanding to get smooth than aquaneed.... aquaneed also set funny off white colour with blue tint.... solar cure, he set clear and very smooth with 800 wet and dry. After of that a little psst psst from white spary pack and 1600 wet and dry for feathering of paint work and you not notice him at all.
Back to questions at hand... If big repair west system epoxy and q cell is the going for best yar, little repairs (like when travelling) epoxy suncure is good... BUT just be making sure he set properly first.... put small amount on piece of plastic or stick or dog or friends hair when they not knowing and leave in sun for 5 minute... if he set then you make repairs on board and laugh at your friend/dog ect ect.... if he not set you laugh muchly at everyone walking past who getting stick or plastic with unset epoxy stucking to their feet.
I thinking that maybe a bad batch of suncure was being made... the first batch I got (big tube) he not setting, the replacement (3 little tubes) he set very quick quick

Yeah, and next time aim for the boogy boarder without the helmet...

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Originally posted by Kremlin

Yar yar Comrades Mark and Easty are very much on the money for certain when speaking of repairings for big dings... I only use the epoxy suncure for small 'travel' dings.

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