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I know this has been asked before.

I am looking for the stainless t-inserts for the footstraps and handle.
where do you guys recommend getting them?
Ideally , if anyone knows a source in Canada that would be great. I checked home depot but they didn't have anything in stainless

Hi,

you mean something like this ?



tks

Kosta

something like this,
but , I guess those would work as well

there are this 2 places in the USA
http://www.snowboardmaterials.com/index ... ng-inserts
http://www.customcomponentsgroup.com/stainless.html

I would not use them even if I would get paid for it.

You need a tool like this :



Make holes like you can see here :

Close the holes at bottom of the board with tape. Center the nuts in the hole and prevent moving them as you press them on the tape.



Glue them in with filled epoxy. I use cotton flakes. For better understanding I have been using epoxy color in this picture :



The result will look like this :



Once the resin is cured, mill the epoxy with a router plain to the blank. Now the things will start to get slightly difficult to explain, english is not my native language.

Drill a small sink from the top to the bottom. You will need the sink to locate the nut once the board is laminated. When the board is finished, open the hole with a thread cuter. And yes, the hole and the thread is going thru the board. I am working like this for a decade or more. You will never rip the nut out of a board, this does not fail.

What you should look for is this :



The wide part of the nut is facing down to the board.

Have fun

Kosta

Fascinating! Would love to see more pictures of your boards!

You can get the SS t-nuts on EBay (50 for around $35). I drill out on the board bottom the diameter of the flanged part so it sits flush with the bottom of the board. The t-nut should be long enough to account for the layers of fiberglass on the top of the board. I tape the bottom hole of the t-nut before laminating the bottom and fill the t-nut with flour packed in before laminating the top. Then after the resin cures drill it out and blow out the flour. No need to retap or clean out the threads.

rynhardt wrote: ↑

Fri May 26, 2017 6:19 pm

Fascinating! Would love to see more pictures of your boards!

I don't have to many pictures of my boards.

This is one of the bottom, this might be 6 years old. All my boards are mold injected. Both board and mold are made out of carbon.



This is one shows the hot box after injection



Sanding the mold, no frame yet.



The mold with frame, not waxed.



This one shows a mold I made for my ex wife. Not finished yet.



That is the result. There was only pulled one out of the mold.



After all, building TT's since 2005 I can tell you, this is boring as hell.

Real men make mold's for foils. That is a serious task.

tks

Kosta

On the second pic we can already see the rust coming. The open bottom inserts might be prone to letting a moisture in. Brass inserts are not great as well, we need a proper 316 SS alloy. You can see how salt corroded on above pic since not 316. That's bad. There is SS and marine type SS

I'm selling small amounts to customers since no one will sell other than in bulk, unfortunately. Postage to Canada is AU$8 for up to 22 inserts (about 100 grams envelope). Just sent to Turkey again, sent before to South Africa all happy customers, great DIY boards

http://boardbuilders-forum.1077691.n5.n ... -td30.html



Cheers

D.

All these ways can work.
Some may be shocked and disappointed to learn it can also work to simply pot a lubricated screw directly into epoxy with high density filler. The screw comes out easily if you coat it with petroleum jelly. In fact this has been done with some yacht keels (no lubrication for these though) carrying tonnes of load since the 1970's. I did foot straps like this a couple of times when I could not find any inserts. It is strong enough for kiting and jumping but not ideal for repeated assembly of dirty parts. Metal is more practical for that.