Curing Time

[SAsurfers]

Sorry I know this has touched on a few places before but the search thing on this forum is so hard to use due to the thousands of threads.

Just wondering what could happen to my surfboard if I surf it tomorrow. Ive had it for about 3 days and it was sitting in the shops for 3 days and im guessing it wouldve taken about 3 days to get here from kirra point. So all up thats around 9 days.

So if I take it out what could possibly happen?

[Mr_momo_32]

dude..... what are you talking about ???

a) it might get eaten by a great white shark?

b) it will get stolen?

c)you will ding it?

d) it will sink

e) all of the above

[SAsurfers]

Sorry now that i read back over it i see how hard it is to understand.

Im asking, if I take it out with only giving it 9 days to cure, will it ding real easy or will it do nothing unless I hit a rock or something?

[dammit__01]

if it a ding repair? a new board? pls be more specific read back on what u have said

[Beanpole]

You will be a bit more prone to depressions but with the disposable nature of boards these days does it matter?

Saw a guy a few years ago jump off the nth side of kirra groin near the pipe. Right inside that little beachie area with knee deep water. He threw his brand new, never surfed ultra light board in and a little 1' wave picked it up and smashed it into the groin. It snapped in half without ever being ridden

[SAsurfers]

sorry for my amazingly shit posts tonight.

i have a new board and its had about 9 days to cure. I paid around 900 bucks for it so I dont really want it to go snapping due to me not leaving it longer enuf...

[marty]

900$, that'd wanna be a damn fine board...

token nitpicking: take it to the shorty forum eh?

[SAsurfers]

I thought seeing as all boards (or most boards) have to cure it would be better to have it here as someone that longboards would probally also know...

thats what i spent my money on.

[marty]

yeh fair call.
i guess.
kinda.

[CaT_SPeW]

thats a fine lookin board there mate

[SAsurfers]

thanks you can see why im dying to surf it!

[dammit__01]

my mate took his out the day he got it altho it was from a store...altho i didnt know webber made stock boards ... but i dont know much

[SAsurfers]

I took it out today (sorry Iggy) no marks or dings anywhere! went amazingly well! but I plan not to surf it for 2 weeks now

[dreamin]

I took my new board out a week after glassing - its fine.

[Hawkeye]

i wouldn't be surfing a new board for at least 2 weeks after it has been glassed... it needs time to cure... and i wouldnt be applying tail patches to an uncured board (as per the photo) as you want it to be exposed to the air...

The catalyst and resin reaction is anaerobic - that means it happens in the absence of air. I would think by the time the board is hard enough to be sanded / finished / polished, the resin would have cured more than enough for any worry of vapour bubbles forming under the pad to be virtually zero - if the threat was ever there (which I doubt).

So I'd be happy to stick my pad on as soon as I've picked up the board. The longer the pad is on you board before immersion, the better.

So, to conclude the lesson for today, Professor Julius Sumner-Hawkeye asks: Why is it so?

[ric_vidal]

The catalyst and resin reaction is anaerobic - that means it happens in the absence of air.

So SAS put it in a vacuum, it’ll cure faster... and I thought this was about hangovers

$900, that is some serious coin, wonder who shaped it I got to stop being so cynical

Prof. is right (for once) about grip, give it a good 24hrs (in a vacuum) to cure the adhesive. Says all that on the packaging doesn’t it?

[Clif]

wow what a razzle-dazzle lookin' board.

won't miss ya in line-up that's for sure haha.

wanna lend it to me haha

[bro]

Could you be so kind as to explain why that board cost you $900? Even if you paid full retail for board and pad your still only looking at $845 tops