Hay Guys i'm trying to find where i can buy packs of threaded inserts for foot straps ect? would anybody be able to point me in a direction? as i keep coming ups empty. There are close examples out of China on Ebay but i cant find items suitable to bond into a board?
cheers 
Hi raggy
try posting this on the windsurfing general forum and you will get more & quicker responses
cheers
puppet
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Hay Guys i'm trying to find where i can buy packs of threaded inserts for foot straps ect? would anybody be able to point me in a direction? as i keep coming ups empty. There are close examples out of China on Ebay but i cant find items suitable to bond into a board?
cheers
The normal inserts in boards are not threaded and come as just holes that you run the screws through to create a thread. I think kitepower sells them online, but I think most windsurfing shops would have them.
Unless of course he wants the much shorter threaded inserts for a wake/kite board?
thanks Guys for the help. yes for a kite but a surfboard i am planning to cut down as a project so depth is fine. 
If you're setting them into a soft foam surfboard, you'd be better off with the longer windsurfing ones, I don't think surfboard foam will be dense enough to hold the short ones.
I use the chinook ones, in WA Stuart Bell is the agent, I'm not sure if he deals online, but if you can't find any in Vic it's worth a try.
As I said above, fine for wake boards, but I don't think they have enough depth for soft surfboard foam, they'll probably pull out too easily.
Turning a dedicated surf board into one with straps requires a lot more work than just slapping in some inserts, to do it professionally requires making a jigs, reinforcement/ bonding and finishing, leaving a top finish intact and coming from the underneath with disc inserts is the way to go, a common technique in snowboard and binding specific manufacturing
These work ok, just drill a large enough hole, fill with epoxy resin and sink the plug into it. Fitted the straps to my foil board with these, had one pull out in a crash but better that than a broken ankle. Quick, easy, cheap and readily available from Bunnings.
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Turning a dedicated surf board into one with straps requires a lot more work than just slapping in some inserts, to do it professionally requires making a jigs, reinforcement/ bonding and finishing, leaving a top finish intact and coming from the underneath with disc inserts is the way to go, a common technique in snowboard and binding specific manufacturing
Nah
windsurf inserts with resin and q-cell, glassed over. Won't pull. Windsurf ones don't, with 3x the force applied than that on a a kite surfboard.
The EVA pad covers it anyway so make it strong and not worried about purdy :)
Thanks Guys the help is much Appreciated! its kinda two fold the main thing behind the project is to teach 2 young Apprentices standard aerospace composite repair techniques and standards. I could use the inserts we would use on a job but there not quite there yet and the Boss would have a **** fit 
!. And it's more fun than making stupid random objects that get thrown out!
Well I don't think routing and gluing in two blocks of plastic then glassing roughly over is the same as blending in pre-preg vacuum bagged laminates then autoclaving it all, on a wing section of a plane that puts lives at risk.
But if you can get a free job go for it 
HaHa hell No! its very basic steps just playing at this stage more getting used to the very general ( extremely) concept of composites. Autoclave,vac bags. and impregnated materials are a long way off for these boys I remember being freshly qualified and only ever repairing rotted out Lavatory floors! MMMM resin and urine !!!! 
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