I think you are right. In general I think getting epoxy spread out where it needs to go is hard with only one hole...however it does depend on what the goal with the repair is..if the goal is get squeeze another few sessions out of a board then fine...if you want the board to hold for a long time than I think more is needed. To re-seat a fin box would for me be too much to ask..I would get a cross-eyed board.jbdc wrote:While I'm an epoxy repair novice myself, I recently had to do a fairly significant repair to what I thought was a small rail ding, which turned out to be much larger than I thought:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... zdzYUlXMjQ
After sanding it down, it looked more like this:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... lJyc2xDWVE
And it was spongy under the entire area about 1cm in from the edge of the outline. It needed to be cut out:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... lYzb2lOY0k
I then filled it with 2 part epoxy and Q-Cel (3M Micro Bubbles will work too), sanded that down, did the laminate layer, more sanding, then a 'hot coat' (at least as much as one can with epoxy). I'm not gonna lie, it was a lot of research, sourcing materials and work; but I'm happy with the result.
If the box is moving 2mm, you might have a bunch of crushed foam with voids under the laminate like I did. Your best bet is to sand down to the glass, then you'll have a better idea of what sort of repair you're looking at and it won't screw anything up if you need to take it to a shop.
If the fin box needs to be re-seated, you're probably best taking it somewhere for repair if you can; they'll have all the equipment and materials to do in a few days what will take you a couple weeks after work and on weekends trying to find places that have clear epoxy and weird fairing compounds.
With all due respect to chipmunk, I don't know how he can so confidently assert a plan of action without having seen the damage in person.
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