RE: board repairs

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Sat Apr 08 2000 - 14:01:56 PDT


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: RE: board repairs
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> Anyone know where to get my board fixed or how to repair a cracked
> box? I think it is of the carbon-glass-foam construction; the fragile
> kind. I wacked into a [big] chunk of submerged wood off Berkeley the
> other night. Och! The fin faired ok but it cracked the fin box and
> pivoted the fin back a bit (the fin base stuck up from the board
> surface about half inch and was wedged in pretty good.) Also there
> was a one inch hairline crack behind the fin box.

Definately get it replaced if you want to keep this board. A weakened
finbox will probably break (like on a jump landing) and worse, leak
and make the whole board worthless.

ASD does nice repairs.

Ken Poulton
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