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Latest project - twin to quad

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Created by Mark _australia > 9 months ago, 10 Nov 2015
Mark _australia
WA, 22362 posts
10 Nov 2015 8:53PM
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Love, love, love my RRD quad. Wanted a smaller one also, so could not pass up an RRD twin which is so close to the same shape......
and then butcher it......


Before:









After









Anyway, kept me out of trouble, in the workshop for a few hours waiting for wind. Maybe at the end off the season when I am lighter and it is blowing properly I may get to use it hahaha

melih
134 posts
11 Nov 2015 1:12AM
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Mark _australia said..
Love, love, love my RRD quad. Wanted a smaller one also, so could not pass up an RRD twin which is so close to the same shape......
and then butcher it......


Before:









After









Anyway, kept me out of trouble, in the workshop for a few hours waiting for wind. Maybe at the end off the season when I am lighter and it is blowing properly I may get to use it hahaha


Congratulations. It is difficult to work with epoxy. Clean and good job. Please inform me after your board test.

Mark _australia
WA, 22362 posts
11 Nov 2015 9:12AM
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^^^ thanks but not as hard as making a sail mate!! You did a great job there

PhilSWR
NSW, 1104 posts
11 Nov 2015 12:50PM
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Looks good Mark.

What was your hope from modifying the board- more tail-end grip, better up-wind motoring, or just like the smell or epoxy?

R1DER
WA, 1461 posts
11 Nov 2015 11:07AM
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Great job Mark, how about some during the process pics. Where did you manage to get the slot boxes from??

Mark _australia
WA, 22362 posts
11 Nov 2015 12:00PM
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^^^ slot boxes were easy to get. Your board is now missing two of them

I didn't take that many pics as I went along, will throw another one or two up tonight maybe.

Phil, I prefer quads to twins unless it is onshore and even then some smaller fronts or moving them back seems to do it for me. This will be interesting to compare as twin and quad on same day

Mark _australia
WA, 22362 posts
11 Nov 2015 5:48PM
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Few pics in stages

Routed and sitting at right level (top of box level with underside of glass, minus a p00fteenth)



Rebated glass around perimeter




and all done looks more like a quad with fins in :)

ULF
QLD, 261 posts
11 Nov 2015 8:04PM
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Wow that's impressive. You even got the graphics looking spot on.

ikw777
QLD, 2995 posts
11 Nov 2015 9:07PM
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"Rebated glass around perimeter" did you try to split the laminate? Or did you go all the way down to the HD foam. I tried to split the laminate on my last job, and wss successful, but wonder if i needed to.

Mark _australia
WA, 22362 posts
11 Nov 2015 8:47PM
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^^ no only took off about 2mm, only the glass....... so router just kissed the divinycell layer.

So (1) the glass that goes around the box lays over onto the d'cell (stronger)
(2) the glass "cap" over the box is then flush with the existing level of the board bottom (less sanding AND no water can ever get in if the glass lifts from the box)

ikw777
QLD, 2995 posts
12 Nov 2015 2:42PM
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Nice!

R1DER
WA, 1461 posts
13 Nov 2015 8:08PM
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Ah the old p00fteenth a fraction bigger than a bee's dick.
Oh thanks loving my new twin now



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