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soft top delam repair?

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grundy

Legend (inyourownmind)
Dec 16, 2005
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Anyone have experience or advice here? We've got a nice little softop that has been a hit with the kids, it gets dragged out to the beach for boogie boarding and some surf experimenting - and it ends up getting left in the sun too. So now I have a nice little soft top with a big delam bubble on the deck. It's in great condition otherwise.

Anyone have any advice on repairing this thing? I'd like to at least get a few more kid days out of it.

I'm assuming I need to slice into the delam a little, let the gas out, add some glue and try to glue that deck skin back down. Anyone done this? Advice on specific glue or otherwise?
 
Belchfire1

Belchfire1

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Jun 27, 2013
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I've repaired a couple soft tops successfully. Use your slice/glue method, but use original gorilla glue, the guys at Catch Surf gave me that advice and it worked great.
BTW they repair their boards for free for the life of the board if you bring it to their San Clemente store. Hopefully you have a Catch, let them deal with it.
 
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grundy

Legend (inyourownmind)
Dec 16, 2005
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Not a Catch Surf, I forget the brand though. I'll have to go check.

5200 sounds like good call.

Thanks for the advice.
 
sdsrfr

sdsrfr

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Jul 13, 2020
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Already stated but 5200 will do the trick.

There is a variant that sets faster, that will likely also work just as well.

ive used both in a variety of dynamic applications and had great success.
 
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