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Small cracks in repaired surface, what next?
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Put a ding in my board first day of riding it last season... Confused

Coreshore was a little over one inch in each direction, professionally repaired. After another weeks riding a small crack has appeared across it. Don't want to spend money on another pro repair if not yet needed so I see I could either ptex candle in there, epoxy it, or just wax it a lot to fill the gap a bit and keep an eye on it?

You can see there's a fair bit of wax on there already - just an off season coat I splurged on in a hurry


Edit- well nice of my image to not work, but if you put the URL into a browser it should give you a glimpse or hopefully this here

First post Smile thanks for any input
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wtf is that? Looks like the surface of Pluto !
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Ha fair, yeah as I say left a sloppily applied overlayer of wax on as left it in storage for the whole summer and didn't want it to go dry.
The repair is the black bit, it's actually all flat apart from the crack you can see diagonally across the middle, which is a good deal less than a millimetre wide but feelable with fingernails. Unfortunately boards still in storage so can't get a better pic easily! rolling eyes the scrape on the white is another matter
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Welcome to snowHeads snowHead
From my experience repairing cracks and lines like those, the p-tex candle does the trick just fine and holds solid for a good while.
I'll have to apply it at the beggining of the season and once more around mid season.
Easy to deal with and doesnt take too long.
So all around a good solution imo.
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Polyethylene shrinks 3-4% when it cools from molten to solid. with a large repair like that it seems that the edges cooled first and bonded to the PE underneath but the centre of the repair then solidified under tension which led to the later stress crack.

After scraping any wax away from the crack I'd suggest warming the area with a gas pen before carrying out the filling-in.
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Great that's reassuring, thanks for the advice!
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