i've got this old 266 mistral flow and happen to finally crack 3cms. the middle part between the back and front footstraps i guess due to all that gybing..finally it was fixed and loved using the board only to find out the gel coat is really slippery even with booties on...question is do i pad it with slice material(used in making thongs or flipflops) or sandpaper or other weird stuff i heard like grounded flourescent bulbs or sugar
you could just use surfboard wax, that would help alot, and a lot easier and cheaper than the other options
had to google Heal pads indeed they are slice materials..you stick them down with just plain rubber cement?
hey JP.......sent you a msg.........comming to phils thurs can bring some material..but then i have to get it to your island..lets know if i can help
I'm sure a read a thread on here once about re-decking boards, do a search and you might come up with something.
You could always wear booties, but I would go some sort of re-deck option. Not that hard to do, just need to get your hands on the materials.
just emailed you lfish gimme a call if you hit this part of the world
am opting for slice material however as i went out the door i saw i had roughly half a pint of r10/60 rigid resin and since decrep mentioned castor sugar might as well try...this island being a sugar plantation island first time i've heard of castor
if i went to the grocery tomorrow for sure the attendants would look me blank in the eye
i called up a skimboarder here and asked her where she got here pads and says it came with board and branded dk which could only mean one thing dakine and sure is expensive
not to worry i have another inexpensive place that makes made to order sandals or flipflops of any color and creation you can think of, am sure they can sell 1X1 ft. of this stuff..
ordinary table salt is about the same size grain, haven't used it myself, but other people have.
salt can react with the epoxy. I used it once. Grips well but the epoxy went yellow within a day or two of it curing. Could have been something else, but the same resin didnt go yellow using sugar. Probably depends on the resin... Normal sugar is fine too. Just a bit rougher.
Yeah some grip is made from ground up recycled glass. So should be pretty similar to sand. But the ground glass is probably more grippy.
Problem with salt and sugar is that the gripping bit is the resin (the sugar and salt dissolve, leaving small sharp edges on the resin). So its nowhere near as tough or hard wearing as glass-based grip where the particles stay bonded.
Mystic do a spray on deck grip, it comes in an arosol can, or they have a kit that uses a roller, you can get it from board crazy online store. you just sand the deck back and apply the grip, think it dries clear..
but if you explain to the 3rd worlders maybe it would make sense
im led to believe with castor sugar after applied and cured an washed, the water dissolves the sugar and leaves resin crevices tell me if im wrong
Well that's the generally accepted theory, but I'm not sure. I suspect the resin actually soaks into the sugar, sort of fossilising it.
I'll have a look at my sugar decked boards with a good magnifying glass and see.
