Paddle repair?
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Topic: Paddle repair?
Posted By: slickhorn
Subject: Paddle repair?
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2007 at 8:43am
I've got an old school werner paddle, you know, white symmetrical blades -- old school.
It was only used once, and the blade cracked. Werner won't touch it because it's so old. REI used to repair fiberglass paddles, but won't anymore.
Where can I get this thing fixed?
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Posted By: ashleygoesdisco
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2007 at 10:40am
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2007 at 11:51am
Also check out Gravity Sports in Renton.
I had a surfboard crack around the tip and Dave at Gravity did an amazing fiberglass repair on it. Then a few years later my wife got ran over on the slopes and her snow board was cracked pretty bad. REI said no and so did snowboard connection. But not gravity. Dave whipped up a wild patch kit matched the plastic and made edges to boot.
I figure he would try anything.
James
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Posted By: slickhorn
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2007 at 9:04am
thanks guys -- I'll try gravity first, sounds like they got the expertise.
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Posted By: erikSANDSTROM
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2007 at 3:44pm
Fiberglass repair is expensive. Save some $$ with my paddle repair guide!
Go to Tap and buy some surfboard resin and cloth, ratio marked mixing cups, stirrers, rubber gloves, a squeegie, and pigment (if you want).
Go to FMeyer and buy some 80 and 120 grit sandpaper, 1in brushes, some dust masks and masking tape. If you have a drill, buy a 5in sanding disk and the adhesive sandpaper to match to save some time.
On a warm, dry day:
1. Sand past the broken areas, and remove any jagged edges with a utility knife or dremel.
2. Really rough up the entire legnth of the faces of the blade with the 80grit.
3. Do not clean the sanded areas with mineral spirits or acetone. Use a SLIGHTLY dampened cloth to remove the dust. Once its clean, keep it clean- don't touch!
4. Lay the fiberglass cloth (2 layers 6oz.) over the blade and cut the excess away with a sharp pair of scissors, leaving an inch of overlap past the blade's edge. Where the paddle curves at the corners, snip v shaped pieces of cloth away as relief cuts to prevent the cloth from bunching up.
5. Prepare your area for glassing. You should have a stable work area with a drop cloth under it. Have your resin, hardener, pigment, squeegie, brushes, gloves, and mask laid out. Put on some Steel Pulse or something.
6. Properly mix your resin, hardener, and pigment according to the can and the graduated scale on the mixing cup from Tap. Stir well- I stir it for a whole song usually. If you can see any vapors coming off the cup, yo mixed it wrong and you should run. Wait about 5 min before you move on to let the resin kick off a bit.
7. Holding the squeegie in one hand, and the cup of resin in the other, apply the resin to the cloth. To evenly apply, move from one side of the area to the other. The leading hand pours a 1/2 in stream of resin on to the cloth. The trailing hand spreads the resin with the squeegie. When the end is reached, the extra resin goes back into the cup. When the whole blade is covered, make a few light passes to remove excess resin. You dont want the cloth floating above the paddle, and you dont want the cloth to be too dry. If you can see little fish eyes the cloth is too dry. Use your fingers and the brush to wet the overlapping cloth and either wrap it to the other side, or let it ride and cut it off later. Let the resin completely dry.
8. Flip the paddle over. With 80grit sandpaper, remove any irregularities on the paddles edges or the unglassed side from glassing the first face. Do up the entire second face, repeating the steps from #2-#7.
9. Finish sand with the 120grit and higher if you want a sheen. Clear spraypaint saves some time for a shine.
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This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn.
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Posted By: tradguy2
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2007 at 3:53pm
SOmebody has fixed a few dings on his surfboard over the years.
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... preparing for a river beating!
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Posted By: erikSANDSTROM
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2007 at 4:48pm
Put a surfboard shaped piece of foam under steps 1-9 and you got a board!
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This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn.
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Posted By: Weide
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2007 at 10:47am
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I hereby knight thee Sir Erik of Fiberglass Land. Thanks for the tips, I'm saving that one for future reference.
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Posted By: Jeff
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 4:13pm
Yeah! Props to Erik! I got an old Werner and it needs some lovin'! Time to test my 'glassing skills with Eriks instructions as guidence. (Not as much lovin' as my AT needs though, that puppy snapped clean off!) I've seen a few custom fibergalss jobs on older Werners and they looked pretty solid.
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 4:37pm
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Professor Sanstrom You da man!
Professor of the surf
Professor Fix-it!
I'm with Eric:
DIY is the best way
on a side note I'll express my disappointment that Werner can't "play ball" and repair a paddler or two now and again. Blunt Family Man sure as hell would. It wouldn't hurt to contact him (Kenny) and ask him if he had any tips for ya. he knows glass work as it pertains to paddles.
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