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Hello all, I know this isn't "building" a board per se but I hope I can get help.

I have a 2007 model Slingshot Glide I bought cheap and beat the hell out of for my first season. It was in rough shape and it's only gotten worse. I'd like to remove the base and top sheets, get it down to the fiberglass, fill in any damage to the glass itself, and then restore it. A few questions:

1) Is it possible to put painted graphics under PTEX without seriously compromising the bond of the PTEX to the bottom of the board? If so, what kind of paint should be used?
2) On the top of the board, is it acceptable to simply paint the fiberglass and then coat with any kind of UV-resistant marine clearcoat?
3) How are the edges of a board treated?
4) The big one: How do you bond PTEX to the board? Just lay epoxy over the fiberglass, the PTEX over that, and then apply weight until the epoxy cures? I don't have a vacuum setup to do the really top-notch stuff.

Thanks.

- under ptex? How under?
- no, it is normally top sheet. Won't stick.
- when? In prod or after?
- pneumatic (or mech) press, heated, rarely a vac .

Seems there's a lot I don't understand.

-I mean painting the fiberglass underlying the PTEX, which would then show through the translucent PTEX.
-I don't follow. Paint won't stick to fiberglass?
-In production. Looking at the boards I have, they seem to have some kind of treatment applied to the edges.
-Cool.

-Yes you can paint the fiberglass but with paints that wont react with the epoxy otherwise will become very blurry. The paints will need to be probably pigmented epoxy and then within time limits to paint over?? SO probably not....
-Grit with 80 gr/m2 withour reaching the glass fiber....difficult..... and paint....again you wont have such a good surface for painting...but after you can apply the resin and let it dry...even that is not easy....
-The shapping..profiling of rails is a matter of type of kiteboard you want/use. You can use a 200grit to slowly give shape you want...
-You need a thermopress....

Used it in one board before..PTEX 0.8..is not an easy material to apply...but stong as hell...for slidders in kiteparks probably...

And the solution is...forget the graphics and save just the core...so you will need to pill off the top and bottm sheets...and then if you are lucky and no fiberglass is not taken out....then slightly grind both surfaces...and then as you say apply fiberglass and epoxy and better use abs as botoom and top....

Grkite wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 1:29 pm

And the solution is...forget the graphics and save just the core

I'm not interested in saving the graphics currently on the board. Half the point of doing this project is that the board is kind of ugly.

Grkite wrote:Used it in one board before..PTEX 0.8..is not an easy material to apply...but stong as hell...for slidders in kiteparks probably...

I wish. No, this is 0.4mm. I just wanted it to stand up to the odd scrape on the coral around here.

I'm not especially concerned with the profile of the rails (I'm not a good enough rider to tell the difference anyway.) I'm just asking this: When I look at the rail of the kiteboard, am I seeing just fiberglass, or is some material laid over to protect it?

Ive meant epoxy won't stick to the topsheet on top of it. It sticks only on bottom of topsheet coz it's corona treated.
No idea how rails are bonded, every brand is different. Some are pouring PU into the core, etc.
If the bottom is done from corals, well, that's it.

downunder wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 2:51 pm

Ive meant epoxy won't stick to the topsheet on top of it. It sticks only on bottom of topsheet coz it's corona treated.
No idea how rails are bonded, every brand is different. Some are pouring PU into the core, etc.
If the bottom is done from corals, well, that's it.

If the bottom is done from corals, well, that's it.......so funny

Kseries wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 2:07 pm

Grkite wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 1:29 pm

And the solution is...forget the graphics and save just the core

I'm not interested in saving the graphics currently on the board. Half the point of doing this project is that the board is kind of ugly.

Grkite wrote:Used it in one board before..PTEX 0.8..is not an easy material to apply...but stong as hell...for slidders in kiteparks probably...

I wish. No, this is 0.4mm. I just wanted it to stand up to the odd scrape on the coral around here.

I'm not especially concerned with the profile of the rails (I'm not a good enough rider to tell the difference anyway.) I'm just asking this: When I look at the rail of the kiteboard, am I seeing just fiberglass, or is some material laid over to protect it?

Ok then..start trying peeling of the top and bottom sheet...is a dirty work..ware gloves ..not nitrile...and pull ...
But it will be better to send a photo...two...to see the condition...and then tell you if you should do that...also for the rails....because as it sounds your board doesnt have a rail....(ABS/TPU ot PU or HMPE or EPOXy resin with fille??)...so two photos to see how bad is the top/bottom sheets and the rails to see what is about....

Grkite wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 4:44 pm

downunder wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 2:51 pm

Ive meant epoxy won't stick to the topsheet on top of it. It sticks only on bottom of topsheet coz it's corona treated.
No idea how rails are bonded, every brand is different. Some are pouring PU into the core, etc.
If the bottom is done from corals, well, that's it.

If the bottom is done from corals, well, that's it.......so funny

Yes, better from corals than something else