Quick footholds install question

[demolition_x]

i would sand the chit out of it to get it down to the hold and redo it.

less of a chance problems down the road. fiberglass is only as strong as what its bonded to.

 

[Skull NX Bones]

normal epoxy resin 4 sure

 

[Speedfreak]

I say leave it alone. I used the walmart stuff on my ski the 1st time I done the hold and when I redone them 4 years later to install my new REVS everything was still on there strong. I actuyally distroyed the old 24-7 footholds trying to get them out. Then I done a test when I installed these.

I used all sorts of bonding agents as a test and found that if you prep it correctly then you won't have a problem. I ground the tray down of my superjet with 36 grit then layed a piece of glass cloth across a piece of 1 inch dowl rod. I used the 8 dollars a quart walmart poly fiberglass resin, I used a profesional grade of polester resin (well I ran it by the local fiberglass shop and he done it) Then I used the west system epoxy resin and if you work the resin down into the groves to make sure that all the air is out of the groves they all stuck. You if you took a hammer and beat the dowl rod off of the ski it tore a piece of fiberglass off with each one.

I also layed strips of fusor, urethane, silicone, 2 part epoxy, walmart fiberglass bondo and some other 2 part stuff I had. The fiberglass bumper repair resin was the only one that would break loose trying to pop it off with a chisel and hammer. the bondo kinda poped off but it took a piece of fiberglass went with it. So believe it or not that is what I found.

Ok polester resin haters can flame away I have my suit on

 

[NelsonLt1]

Can someone post some pics of there Waterdawg footholds install. I just recieved mine and I'm not too sure on the second piece that makes it enclosed. I'm curious what others are doing. Thanks.

 

[suva]

I was told this is the way the enclosures are supposed to go on.

 

[demolition_x]

Can someone post some pics of there Waterdawg footholds install. I just recieved mine and I'm not too sure on the second piece that makes it enclosed. I'm curious what others are doing. Thanks.

yea i just got the enclosures too couldn't really figure it out.

 

[NelsonLt1]

Thanks SUVA, that kind of what I was thinking, I just wasn't too sure on the placement; I may move mine forward a bit more so I'm not as locked in.

Also what are you guys doing about the bottom of the hold? just cutting off the downward facing lip, and butting it up against the cut out in the tray and glassing over, or is there a better way? there is going to be a lot of pressure from landings on that joint?

 

[demolition_x]

i think you def have glue rivet them. i am gonna make them pretty stout with fiberglass, they are way too flimsy for my taste

 

[CoreyLKN]

Thanks SUVA, that kind of what I was thinking, I just wasn't too sure on the placement; I may move mine forward a bit more so I'm not as locked in.

Also what are you guys doing about the bottom of the hold? just cutting off the downward facing lip, and butting it up against the cut out in the tray and glassing over, or is there a better way? there is going to be a lot of pressure from landings on that joint?

I just cut the lip. Dunno know what it is for but it needed to go.

 

[Speedfreak]

i think you def have glue rivet them. i am gonna make them pretty stout with fiberglass, they are way too flimsy for my taste

Read up on the waterdog foothold thread that was started about april last year. There are quite a few install pictures in there.

I just put one screw in the front flange and kept grinding untill I had moved them out as far as possible. I then started glassing around them... Mine are plenty strong I put about 4 layers around them and then covered it a few more times with thin coats of resin.


I think they are the best footholds on the market... but I am trying these footholds that in my new ski for a while but I think I will be installing new REV footholds by the middle of summer.

 

[demolition_x]

are you currently riding with them or future plans.


i wanna make sure that the enclosures don't get in the way if i do surf stance and what not.

 

[Speedfreak]

I have them in my 01 SJ but my newest (to me that is) has WCF footholds. I don't have the enclosures with mine. I rode all last summer with the REV's. I padded them so that when your foot is in the foot hold they are tighter on the inside top of your foot. There is no way for you to come out sideways. I like the way that your foot goes all the way to the outside of the ski but your foot still points straight so your stance is wider not just your toes pointing outward.


I think (since I don't have elclosures) that there will be tons of room in the tray for what ever you want to do even with the enclosures in place. These foot holds don't protrude into the tray like the old style footholds. So even with the enclosures the tray is almost as wide as without footholds...

here is my post and a few pictures of how far out the foothold really can be.

Foothold comparison

 

[brentR]

i glued and screwed my footholds down first then did the glass... so i think i should be ok but like demo_x said I don want it to screw me down the road..