How to Fix Snowboard Chips

Video Transcript

"Hey, I'm Michael at Sid Sports. We're located on 3900 South and 265 East. I'm going to...here to teach you how to fix a chip in the snowboard. We actually just finished working on this snowboard, and I have a ski right there we can use. And it's the same procedure, the same materials on each. Now, what you're going to need to do is you're going to need to buy a little candle -- a little PTex candle right here. You can buy this at our store for, like, 80 cents. Start by lighting it on fire. You can use a torch or a match. The idea of this is you want to get a nice blue flame, and once it holds a flame without the candle or the torch or the matches, you know it's good. Get a nice blue flame. If you see it yellow like that, you know it's...you know it's having a lot of carbon in it. The blue flame -- that's going to hold into the ski more, and you know that's a nice...that's good. Blue's good. The yellow's going to come out a lot easier. Let it...let it cool down a little bit. If it's warm, it's just going to peel all the way out. Get a metal scraper -- just a piece of metal. We sell them here that are really nice for 10 dollars. You could use whatever you have at home. And just go ahead by kind of scraping. The secret to this is keeping it flap and keep going up and down the ski. You can go either way. And don't go sideways. Kind of go with the grain. If it's a major crack in the ski or a major...a major chip in the ski, that's a shop-only fix. We have the tools here where we can actually weld the plastics and the base of the ski together. If it's a major chip on the edge, that's going to be another fix we call a patch. We have...we have a base material right here where I will cut it out and will poxy it in, and that holds just as well as the base. Well, we've had people come in and the...they've hit...they've hit the ski with a rock and it holds up just fine. So we have a...we have a ski we just repaired a couple days ago, and right here, as you can see, right along here, that was a big, core shot right there. And we welded it together, and that's going to hold up really nicely. And right here, we have another one right here where he actually broke his edge and we fixed that right there, but we put a patch in right there. And that holds in really great. You could get...you could run over the biggest rock, and it's just going to put a scratch and it's not going to take out the actual patch itself."