Surfboard Repairs : Laminating Surfboard Fiberglass

With laminating resin, fiberglass stays on the surfboard. Learn how to laminate a fiberglass surfboard in this free surfing video about how to repair a surfboard.

Expert: Sean O'Leary
Contact: www.andersonsurfboards.com
Bio: Sean O'Leary works for Anderson Surfboards in Marina Del Rey, CA. He is known in the Los Angeles area as the best surfboard repair expert, and he is very well respected in the surfing community.
Filmmaker: sam taybi

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• surfboards
• broken surfboards
• surfboard dings
• surfboard repairs
• fiberglass surfboard

[poolshark1520]

Thanks for the tip but with the low res video, it's hard to make out the saturation points but I get the jist of it.

Thanks, dude.

[HBCult]

Never know there are MEKP resin.

[greatandoddogre]

The stuff he's using in the video to catalyze the resin, instead of MEKP, is a UV curing catalyst, which means that it won't harden until it's exposed to UV radiation. This can be done by wheeling it out into the sun, or you can use a tanning bed, which is what we do in our shop.

[greatandoddogre]

Actually the MEKP doesn't "make" it harden. Most polyester resin is "pre-promoted" meaning that it will harden eventually no matter what you do. What the MEKP does is kicks off the hardening process. Without it, the resin would take 6 months to a year to harden. MEKP is not a hardener, as most people think. It's an initiating catalyst.

[1kevmon]

the catalyst in the resin is what makes the resin harden.

It is MEK peroxide

[mathiasshow]

Can anyone tell me what the catalyst in the resin actually is? Thanx