Standup Zone Forum
The Foil Zone => Foil SUP => Topic started by: PonoBill on May 22, 2019, 01:58:36 PM
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I added tracks to the existing Tuttle box on Mr. Fugly so I can use the Axis foil plate mount. I also have the Axis tuttle adapter, but I figured it might be nice to try some adjustability. In the process I learned something new. I was going to just add mast tracks, but when I went by Chinook to pick them up one of the guys said most board makers are using the 10 inch fin box instead of a mast track. The fin box has the entry slot for the T-nut in the middle, which gives a little more adjustment and no chance of popping out the nut if the plate is adjusted to near the end of the track. Furthermore, the fin boxes are a little stouter--both a little deeper and thicker walled. I didn't realize that.
Chinook can't keep the 10" fin boxes in stock, so it's fortunate that I went by. They were just finishing a manufacturing run and I got four that I had to wait a few minutes for because they weren't quite finished. Good timing.
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Can you share how you installed them?
This should be a good test for a 'custom' installation of tracks.
As you know I am sour on tracks having witnessed so many rip out. I suspect you reinforced them with something.
All ideas and photos appreciated. Nature, the Columbia River and 16 to 17 stones will work through the hypotheticals.
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Actually, no. The block of PVC that the tuttle is embedded in overlapped the slots by about a half inch. I had plasnned to make half-cassettes but elected instead to just gorilla glue the tracks in place, relying on the connection to the tuttle block for reinforcement. Then I lapped a sunstantially bigger piece of carbon over everything with a layer of 6oz satin glass as a sanding layer. I think the combination of existing carbon, the PVC box, and a bigger second lap of carbon is sufficient. We'll see.
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Mr. Fugly styling both the tuttle adapter and the plate mounts. Here's a little quiz. What's wrong with the first picture. Besides my shop looking like it was ransacked.
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Easy, you mounted the foil the wrong way, it should be bellow the board and not on top of it, right.
You should open a Ponomuseum!
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Dear lord I love your garage, so many fun projects to work on. Of course there lies the problem.....which one?