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Various Composite repairs, click on image to enlarge

: Felt Carbon frame repair 1

: Felt Carbon frame repair 2

: Felt frame repair down tube

: Felt frame repair top tube

: Felt frame repair logo

: Felt frame repair complete

: Lotus bumper 1

: Lotus Bumper 2

: Lotus Bumper 3

: Carbon skid plates badly damaged

: Skid plates re skinned

: Carbon skid plates finished

: SUP deck break 1

: SUP deck break 2

: SUP deck break 3

: Moto Guzzi mudguard repair 1

: Moto Guzzi repair 2, Vacuum bonding additional carbon plies

: Moto Guzzi repair complete and re lacquered

: Sea kayak broke in two

: Mid surgery
sea kayak broke in two

: Good as new

: Lotus under tray previous poor repair

: Second side glassed and blended

: Lotus panel resprayed

: Carbon bike frame repair 1

: Carbon bike frame repair 2

: Carbon bike frame repair 3

: Large repair to carbon SUP deck

: Carbon patch applied

: Repair sanded, primed, painted and pads stuck back down.

: Carbon repair to Race SUP

: Carbon patches scarf jointed on

: Fine sanded, primed and matching paint

: Beach buggy repairs

: Beach buggy lights to be flushed out

: Lights glassed and flushed over for new style

: Techno nose badly damaged
Techno nose badly damaged

: Carbon, glass and HD PVC layers being vacuum bonded to core for increased strength
Vacuum bonding carbon/glass and PVC layer to core for added strength

: After reshaping nose, PVC is double glassed, filled, primed, faired and sprayed
Repar complete

: Carbon bike frame chainstay repair

: Chain stay carbon repaired and lacquered

: Finished in matching paint

: Fin box repair 1

: Fin box repair 2

: Fin box repair 3

: F2 repair 1, deck badly damaged, laminate, sandwich and core
F2 missile repair, deck badly damaged

: F2 repair 2, sandwich material sanded back to make scarf joint with new material
Sandwich prepared for new pvc with scarf joint

: F2 repair 9, Colours matched and 2k clear coat with non skid beads applied, as the original specification was closely matched overall weight gain of only 24 gramms
Good colour match and durable 2k clear coat applied with non skid beads

: Landyacht repair 1
Landyacht repair

: Landyacht repair 2
Repairing a landyacht

: Landyacht repair 3
Landyacht repair complete

: Mistral nose badly damaged

: Vacuum bonded and carbon/glass reiforced

: Faired, primed and painted

: Carbon seat post rebuild

: It took several sessions to get to this stage

: Finished and ready to ride

: Range Rover Grill stone chips and poor lacquer

: Sanding back, filling and flatting

: Resprayed in 2k UV resistant lacquer

: Firewire epoxy board with core soaked
Firewire with broken laminate and core soaked

: Using vacuum and a breather / soaker sheet to evacuate water from core
Vacuum used to remove water from core Firewire

: Filled, glassed, primed and colour matched
Completely dried out, filled, glassed and painted

: Large tail repair to Kailua
Repair large tail ding to Naish Kailua

: HD pvc foam filled, shaped and epoxy glassed
Foam filled, shaped and glassed repair

: Sanded, primed and painted
Tail repair to Naish Kailua

: Jet ski repair to nose

: Cracked area ground back to solid base and laminate rebuilt

: Area reshaped, filled, faired, primed and painted

: Carbon frame badly crushed

: Delaminated carbon plies removed
Repair to carbon bike frame

: Carbon re-laminated inside and out, finished in 2k lacquer

: Pressure ding to polyester resin longboard

: Broken glass ground away and area re glassed
repair to rail

: New glass sanded flush, hotcoat applied and sanded flush and polished to match existing finish
Longboard rail repair

: Kiteboard base delamination

: Base being epoxy vacuum bonded back down

: Bonded cured and edged, ready to rip.

: SUP Mast track install 3

: SUP mast track install 5

: SUP mast track install 6

: Nose damage through outer glass and sandwich layer to core.
RRD nose damage 1

: Area filled, glassed, and primed
RRD nose repair 2

: Matching 2k paint used for durability
Nose repair 3

: Repair to Futures finbox
Futures fin box repair

: Bonded, reglassed and painted
Futures finbox repair

: Converting a Twinzer to Quad
Converting a twinser to quad

: Alignement of new quad boxes
Lining up new quad boxes

: Boxes bonded in and glassed over
Glassing over new quad boxes

: Glass faired back and primed
Quad boxes glassed and primed

: Area masked out and sprayed to match colour scheme
Spray area to match board

: Boxes opened up and new fins installed, its now a quad
Quad boxes with new fins installed

: SUP tail badly crushed and wet inside
Tail repair to SUP badly crushed

: Tail dried out and new sandwich material built up to be glassed
New sandwich material to tail repair

: primed, painted and new tail pad
SUP Tail repair complete

: Both front glass on fins smashed off, sand off and prepare area
Glass on fins snapped off, prepare area and glass contact areas

: Fins bonded in place, reinforced with fin rope and 2 layers of glass
Picture shows fins being glassed on

: Fins hot coated and sanded back
Glassed on fins complete

: FCS installation to SUP, template and mark angles
Installing FCS fins to SUP

: Using FCS jigs to set up angles
FCS jigs setting up angles

: Plugs sanded flush and fins installed
FCS installation to SUP complete

: SUP Deck break rail to rail

: Core bonded, sandwich feathered in and reglassed

: Faired, primed and painted to match, unfortunately the logo had to go.

: Carbon SUP paddle repair

: Carbon vacuum wrapped and inside collet

: Carbon paddle repair test

: RRD nose badly damaged

: Lightweight epoxy based filler and glassed.
Filled and glassed over using lightweight epoxy filler

: Sprayed in matching 2k paint

: Poorly repaired kiteboard to be redone
Kiteboard with poor repair

: Repair removed, area reglassed and new FCS plugs installed
Repair reglassed, new FCS plugs installed

: Plugs sanded flush, area hotcoated and sanded finish
Repair hotcoated and sanded flush

: AHD nose repair 1

: AHD nose filled and glassed

: Glass faired, primed and matching paint
AHD nose repair complete

: SUP broke in half, bottom skin holding it together
Badly broken SUP

: Core bonded, original skin strength matched

: Re glassed, faired, primed and painted

: Kiteboard finbox repair 1

: Kiteboard finbox repair 2

: Kiteboard finbox repair 3

: Installing FCS fin system on a woodie

: FCS fin install 2

: FCS installation complete

: Kayak repair 1

: Kayak repair 2

: Kayak repair 3

: Mistral Mast track upgrade

: Old box/plugs removed for HD pvc foam block support for new track

: New track installed, glassed over, primed and painted to match

: Screen frame broken

: Frame glassed inside and out and reshaped

: Frame filled, primed and painted

: Top tube finish

: Chain stay finish

: Top Tube finish

: Chain stay repair 1

: Chain stay masking out

: Chain stay finish fainted and lacquered

Checking a carbon frame

Checking a carbon frame internally for extent of damage

Sea Kayak repair

Sea kayak snapped

Kayak repair

If it can be made, it can be fixed!

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