water logged

[righteous]

a buddy of mines been refurbishing an Old cassette horrel concave and he asked me afew days ago if theres any way you can Unwater logg a board. usualy i wouldnt take the time to make a thread about something like that but hes got a classic here and my goal has been to ride this board again ever since my last one broke years ago.

if any one has any ideas or advice please help!

[ollieshuvitz]

man is that an '03 Horrell? great boards. i would suggest letting it sit for a week or two, that has been the only way that i've been able to get a water logged board to lighten up. basically you need the wood to dry out as much as possible, so the longer it sits the lighter it should become.

after you let it sit, make sure you re-paint or re-seal the board once it's at the weight you want. other wise, it's likely to become water logged again.

[1337]

yeah just dont try to dry it in the sun or heat just let it drip dry so to speak.

[righteous]

thanks guys. my freinds got it against his wall right now, but hes going to water seal it soon.

[Poo]

pics when he's done?

[righteous]

VinceWhiteman, yes sir.

he has this idea where ( you now in cars and funiture how they apply that material that looks like wood Over shiznackle wood to make the wood look fancy even tho its fake) well hes putting that on the bottum and sealing over it with some sealent.


hey vince what ever happened to National wakeskating day ( jan. 21st) this year?

[ImSoWakested]

theres some method they use to save books and paper that have gotten wet, it dries them up so they are good as new, i think its also a taxidermy method, i cant remeberwhat it was tho, but that would work, its like vacum seal, orfreeze dry crazy stuff

[righteous]

ImSoWakested, my buddys got a large fish freezer , you think putting the board in that would work?

how ever i dont see how that would dry it out.

[ImSoWakested]

righteous, i wish i remembered what the exact method was, but they had theses old ass books that had been damaged in a flood, and then after the treatment they were good as new, it was pretty amazing, im gonna google that sit right now

[ImSoWakested]

heres a little snippet "Freezing, followed by vacuum freeze drying has been shown to be one of the most effective methods for removing water from large numbers of books and other paper records,"
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/disasters/primer/waters.html

i know thats for books, but it all comes from trees ya know?


heres some more
"Freeze-drying :

The freeze-drying technique dries a material by sublimation, i.e. a natural process that transforms frozen water directly into steam without passing through the liquid phase. It is strongly recommended to carry out impregnation with a cryoprotective product prior to sublimation in order to protect the wood against the effects of swelling when the liquid water is transformed into ice.

Freeze-drying is divided into two phases. Firstly, the objects are frozen down to -30°C. Secondly, they are dried by sublimating the water when a primary vacuum (1-5 mbar) is created in the chamber. The water vapour produced during the drying phase is captured by cold traps chilled to -50 / -60°C. The temperature rise during drying is measured by thermocouples introduced into the core of the wood, so that the end of the freeze-drying process can be carefully monitored."

http://www.arc-nucleart.fr/an/lexique/lexique.htm

so if youve got access to a freeze dryer but yeah thats alll i got

[Poo]

righteous, poor oganizing, L13 did one in toronto this season, but the one i wanted to do last year went down the drain unfortunately. id like to organize somthing bigger for next year but we'll see.

[deltarider]

Ask E-Snow.

[sparrow.2]

As dumb as it sound you want to take your board into a sauna. It's worked with all my boards and really gets the water out.

You might be able to replicate it though by building a light bulb oven and heating that up to about 90°C. Then basically just bake your board. Sometimes even manages to unwarp boards....