Surfboard Repair Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now that we've talked about the tools and equipment, lets get a little bit into the safety just because we're working with chemicals it's really important to understand that a lot of these things if they get on your skin, how to get it off and actually how to avoid getting it on yourself. So the most crucial material that we actually use is what's called MEK which is like an organic peroxide or catalyst. A lot of the resin kits that you'll buy will come with the organic peroxide and this is very bad for you. This is what actually gets the resin to harden. If this gets on your skin, you won't even notice, if you feel the wetness you might notice that, but it will take 5 minutes and it will burn you and it will burn you bad. So the best thing to do is wash yourself, first with probably some acetone to get it off and then go ahead and just soap and water it off but lets just avoid getting it on you. What I suggest and what I do is, I don't even use this anymore, what, there's something what's called Suncure now that's out and this is just a powder substance that you add to your resins and what this does if there's any UV light out there that actually catalyzes your resin. So even, normally when you would add a peroxide, the whole process of it curing is usually underneath you, when you're working on it it's all going in your, the fumes are going into your face and stuff. This stuff you set it out there and all the reaction is actually away from you, so that's what I suggest. Obviously acetone, if it gets in your eyes, it's going to burn, you can't in-jest it, it's dangerous. Worse than nail polish and paint thinner, bad stuff. Help you with the fumes, here it is, charcoal mask, filters. This will keep all the dust and the fumes out of, breathing them in but this, if you're using a big machine like this, that's great, you can use something like this but at home most of your sanding you can just use a little sanding block like this with a little paper mask. I mean this is perfect, you could get this at Home Depot or any kind of home improvement store and that should pretty much cover when it comes to safety. Just always realize that although it's surfboards, also these are chemicals that people need to know that they are using. So read all the stuff that comes with all the stuff you purchase. But now what we're going to do is we're going to get into the repair and we'll start off by prepping and doing them."