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by steve shearer
Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:55 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

thanks.

I've had them in the sun last two days and it seems to have set.

finally.
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:50 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

that'd be reason to not go epoxy wouldn't it?/

The fact that epoxy is so much harder to repair......
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:18 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

Yeah I tried to do it like that.

Fcucked up the mix and it didn't set properly.
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:11 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

Mate, the before and after of my dear wifes face when she gets back from England and see the unholy mess I've created would be worth the price of admission.
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:11 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

Thats why I'm fixing Don. Trying to get a quiver operational for the weekend. and Spork the embarassing ting is I watched an hour of those vids and went in full of confidence. The nose and tail reco is a total debacle. The board with multiple rock gouges is semi-watertight. I haven't touched the one...
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:15 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Re: Ding fixing

Tried to do a nose and tail reconstruction and patch a board trashed on the rocks in big swell.
More ding than board.

What a mess. I fcuking hate resin.
by steve shearer
Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:10 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ding fixing
Replies: 30
Views: 7226

Ding fixing

Sucks dogs balls.

Tried to repair some severely battered surfboards in anticipation of this upcoming swell and made the biggest dogs breakfast out of it.

Good ding fixers are worth their weight in gold.

That is all.
by steve shearer
Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:57 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Winter: La Nina refuses to leave the building.
Replies: 100
Views: 38869

Re: Winter: La Nina refuses to leave the building.

yes, a classique little onion.
by steve shearer
Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:58 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Winter: La Nina refuses to leave the building.
Replies: 100
Views: 38869

Re: Winter: La Nina refuses to leave the building.

August is actually shaping up alright. A few banks are just starting to make sense of the dominant paradigm of small/moderate south swell.
by steve shearer
Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:43 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Board washers
Replies: 91
Views: 26710

Re: Board washers

do you rinse your fishing gear Fong?
by steve shearer
Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:33 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Where did you surf today ?
Replies: 30082
Views: 11343635

Re: Where did you surf today ?



nice shots. is the left q bomby?
by steve shearer
Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:27 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Firefly Twinzer
Replies: 21
Views: 10016

Re: Firefly Twinzer

bring a crowbar so you can prise it out of my hands.
by steve shearer
Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:54 am
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Firefly Twinzer
Replies: 21
Views: 10016

Firefly Twinzer

I've always hated twin fins. With a passion. Although I had to moderate my views after riding twin keeled simsters etc etc. I did actually ride a twinzer sometime in the very early nineties, a glen minami board and hated that too. Squirrelly piece of shite I thought at the time,this was just before ...
by steve shearer
Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:56 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Billabong bid $1.45
Replies: 13
Views: 5640

Re: Billabong bid $1.45

I bet the TPG guy sat in his singapore office and said " I love the smell of dilution in the morning!"
by steve shearer
Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:20 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Where did you surf today ?
Replies: 30082
Views: 11343635

Re: Where did you surf today ?

that looks like a 6-8ft wave to me with a good peel angle and a negotiable line-up.
easy pieces on an 8ft+ board.
surprised no-one out.

where was Roy?
by steve shearer
Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:05 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: Hawaii - Few happy snaps for Shearer
Replies: 15
Views: 5202

Re: Hawaii - Few happy snaps for Shearer

love that wave. sharky though.
by steve shearer
Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:17 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Where did you surf today ?
Replies: 30082
Views: 11343635

Re: Where did you surf today ?

So Riglin doesn't handle a big swell?
by steve shearer
Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:02 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Where did you surf today ?
Replies: 30082
Views: 11343635

Re: Where did you surf today ?

wiz that Riglin cuzzy bro?