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Surf Pulse Using Sun Cure UV Resin

Jan 31, 2011

Posted by Dale Christenson

Years after his inauspicious start, Broglio today has the formula down pat for juggling multiple boards at a time (and not dinging them). The secret ingredient is powdered “Sun Cure” that replaces the usual toxic MEKP resin catalyst or hardener that normally sets within 10–20 minutes. “Sun Cure” is triggered by ultraviolet light either from a florescent light box or directly from the sun. Created as a class project at Flagler College in St. Augustine Florida by Dale Christenson, this much more environmentally-safe product has been employed by Vince for years, even as other pros are just coming around to its benefits. Namely, the hardening process can be controlled by the glasser: slowed or sped up. Excess resin can be filtered, reused, and not wasted, “going off” only when hit by UV rays. This allows more time to squeegee off the fiberglass perfectly during lamination and kick off the hardening of the resin in stages for a stronger board, as well as keeping multiple boards in motion. Added strength comes from eliminating the “guesswork” of adding the catalyst. More info at www.suncure.com

1 comment

UV Resin said…

I love the post and am building something like this one. did you look into uv curing catalyst for polyvinyl resins? its surfboard resin it’s cheap and you can adjust the catalyst mixture your self to get a specific cure time. if you flash the resin as well you can get a very quick cure time(3 sec). by using the resin you can increase the laser to 100mw 405nm, which would drop the cure time to to near instant. without burning the resin wanted to share the maybe you could try it out. besides who doesn’t want to use a stronger laser

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