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i was talking to my tech teacher the other day about a project of making a plastic surfboard.

i was thinking of making one out of solid plastic, because weight wont really be a problem and we dont have the tools to form it and have it hollow in the inside.

i asked him what he thought would be the best and he thought the stuff that r/c car bodies are made out of. poly carbonate or some thing like that.
where as at first i was thinking a big slab of acrylic or a lot of sheets of acrylic laminated together.

i was thinking of using routers, and sanders to shape it and then have the fins on the bottom rebated and glued in.

it will be a board just to take down for my mates and my sister that wanna paddle round and muck about when its calm.

am i crazy or is it feasible? what sort of shape should i be looking at doing it, size, and what prices are the plastics you would recommend.

Go the BEARS!

munch wrote:fibre glass is made of glass amazingly;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibreglass
and isn't a plastic.

Other plastics you might want to consider are;
- expanded polystyrene
- expanded polypropylene
- expanded polyethylene
- expanded polyurethane
- polyester resin
- epoxy resin
- ....

I suspect unless Sheepy's teacher is cluey the board will be poly-unsaturated.
There were some boards way back that were like the very cheap kick boards; two shaped plastic shells welded together they failed within the first hour of any sort of real surf even kiddies corner type shore breaks.

Plenty of ways to build plastic boards here.
Click on projects.
http://www.grainsurf.com/forum/