Thinking of making a pocket board, but what's the best way to attach the mast in to board when I don't want to have through the board bolts & nuts but have the mast bolts threaded to the board, please?
Thanks very much!
I just drilled holes into core and epoxied inserts in place, then several layers of carbon fiber over, and drilled out carbon once cured. Holes were somewhat over sized. Core material is high density foam, not sure how well this would work with softer foam. Has been holding my foil on for maybe 30 sessions without any sign of weakness (strapless only, and I’m pretty light).
I would put them in after glassing (glass will help spread the load and reduce possibility of pulling through the soft wood). Ideally then add a local glass patch on top.junebug wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:34 pmI’m going to be building a basic wood foil board made out of pawlownia glassed 6oz top and bottom.
I’m going to use stainless t-nuts for the foil mount inserts. Dumb question, probably, but should I put the t-nuts in before or after glassing? If before, I would assume I’d need to cover the female end on the bottom with tape or something similar to keep the epoxy out of the female channel of the nut?
tmcfarla wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:50 pmI just drilled holes into core and epoxied inserts in place, then several layers of carbon fiber over, and drilled out carbon once cured. Holes were somewhat over sized. Core material is high density foam, not sure how well this would work with softer foam. Has been holding my foil on for maybe 30 sessions without any sign of weakness (strapless only, and I’m pretty light).
I used 316 stainless steel inserts, which were really hard to find in metric sizes (I eventually found a user on this forum selling them, thanks downunder). Anyone have experience using 304 stainless? Those are easier to find but I was worried it would corrode over time.
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