Bic Ding Repairs

[Dixiesfalseteeth]

Hi,

newbie, so please be gentle

Can dings in Bics be repaired?

If so what do you use?

Cheers

[isaluteyou]

bics are basically plastic so imagine epoxy would work. Someone with better knoeledge of bics will probably give a more accurate answer

[garbarrage]

what you do... drop a bomb on it?
have a BIC smashed the thing against a reef a couple of times and watched it fly down the road in heavy wind a few times and not so much as a scratch.... one stone shaped dent underneath.
reckon epoxy filler should do the job.
fill the hole... then tape some plastic over it overnight while it sets... bingo good as new.
i normally use the lid of a bisto gravy granules tin... works a treat... just to keep the shape... slice the ends of any cracks with a razor just to make sure they don't spread if on the edges or rails...

[drowningbitbybit]

Yup, any epoxy ding repair kit will do the job.

[Dixiesfalseteeth]

Gents,

thanks

[CHarvey]

DUCK TAPE!!!!!!

[garbarrage]

whatever else you do.... for the love of god don't buy ding repair patches.
for no other reason than they're cursed...
mate gave me 3 of them a few months ago. put a ding in my board for the first time in a year the day he gave them to me. then did the same next 3 times out till they were all gone. haven't had a ding since....


oh.... and duck tape is the solution to nearly everything...!

[surferdude_scarborough]

mate if i dinged a bic i think it would be a good time to get a new board

[crepuscular]

DUCK TAPE!!!!!!

rofl...

yeah... I've seen people duck taped their boards @ my local beach, and it's SO ugly...

[RustyG]

duct tape is by far the cheapest and easiest way to go...i have a pretty decent crack in the fiberglass at the nose of my sh***y long board that i decided to duct tape until i got around to fix it...1 year later the duct tape is still there and there is hardly any water rot in the foam underneath.

[garbarrage]

mate if i dinged a bic i think it would be a good time to get a new board

really good point.....
although if you managed to ding a BIC... shudder to think what you'd be capable of doing to a glass board!!!!

dont mean to be slagging... but how'd you do it?

[Dixiesfalseteeth]

I didnt, was thinking of buying a secondhand one that had a ding ini t.

[garbarrage]

forget it mate.... unless its stupidly cheap you could do much better!!
am actually a fan of BICs as beginner boards cos they take a beating.... but buying one that's been beaten up that badly just seems like a bad
idea.
get a decent secondhander... shouldnt be too expensive.