Cook the water out of the foam?

[SuperDrifter]

Crazy idea? I was thinking of heating hull inside/outside to remove small amounts of water (microcracks). :scratchchin: Through the drain plug, and from outside w/ a torpedo heater. Seems alot easier than defoaming.

 

[tor*p*do]

Just pop it in the microwave for 2 hours on high! :439:
the only way to get that water out
is to manually remove the waterlogged foam.

 

[Gunter83]

if u got stock foam in there, might just want to bite the bullet and remove it and put some good 2 part foam in there. I know even after riding my 08 for 3-4 weeks the tray foam was already wet.

 

[QuickMick]

Crazy idea? I was thinking of heating hull inside/outside to remove small amounts of water (microcracks). :scratchchin: Through the drain plug, and from outside w/ a torpedo heater. Seems alot easier than defoaming.

When I put new foot holds in my ski.. I put the electric heater with fan blowing on each hold cut out for a day.. Everything was warm and I think I got any and all moisture out.. It wont hurt to try if you have moisture..
If you have a leak.. you need to find it though, or it will get wet again.

 

[cookerq62]

If you put get a strong vacuum in the hull water will boil @ about 120 deg f

 

[Waternut]

If you put get a strong vacuum in the hull water will boil @ about 120 deg f

Good plan but that would require you being able to suck all the air out. Let's face it...the water wouldn't be wet if there wasn't a leak somewhere and since air will always come through the leak, you'll never fully get the air out.

 

[cookerq62]

Well you would be fixing the leaks while pulling a vacuum on the in the hull. I'm sure you could get a pretty air tight hull using a stethoscope & some 3m 5200. Hahah you could take the magnetron out of a microwave and aim it at the hull to heat up the water. Sound Safe?

 

[ski4]

it will never work
you will need to super heat that thing and still it won't work well

i left mine open, with the tray and sides cut out for over a month, the foam was still wet

 

[Shadow7874]

Water boils instantly in a vacuum with zero pressure. If you can manage to get anywhere close, it would boil easily and you could just suck the vapor out, but not only would that be way harder to do, it would probably implode your hull. I had 4 holes in my 550 hull from where the factory rear sponson things where. After sanding i was blowing the dust away, and for some reason stuck the tip of the air compressor into the hole. The hull swelled up a tiny bit and i could hear it starting to crack. That was with 4 holes in it and the factory foam from 1988.

If you are set on trying something like it, i would put a vacumm on one side of the hull and an air inlet on the other so the air could move across hopefully bringing some water with it into the vacuum

 

[ski4]

Water boils instantly in a vacuum with zero pressure. If you can manage to get anywhere close, it would boil easily and you could just suck the vapor out, but not only would that be way harder to do, it would probably implode your hull. I had 4 holes in my 550 hull from where the factory rear sponson things where. After sanding i was blowing the dust away, and for some reason stuck the tip of the air compressor into the hole. The hull swelled up a tiny bit and i could hear it starting to crack. That was with 4 holes in it and the factory foam from 1988.

If you are set on trying something like it, i would put a vacumm on one side of the hull and an air inlet on the other so the air could move across hopefully bringing some water with it into the vacuum

the amount of vacuum you need is ridiculous, i tried , superjets leak from too many spots , high and low. you can't suck out all the steam that you make boiling it, you would need to drill holes all over to let the steam out , then you have a worse mess. i did exactly what you suggested with air and vacuum, and let it go for at least an hour. it did nothing


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