greetings

[EdHornby]

Hello all - apologies for the delay, realised I was nearly into double figures and no intro, how inconsiderate

My name is Ed Hornby (obviously) I live in Manchester, and having been a scuba boy for a few years I got into freediving through Steve Millard (Wellard on here).

So I now have a secondhand monofin with a split in it (which I'm figuring out how to mend so I don't have to bin it) and a green elios 5mm suit so everyone will know who I am !!! getting better at pool disciplines, but my equalisation ain't so great - good excuse to go out diving to practice then :-)

see ya round - hmm double dip maybe???...!!!....

[BatRay]

Hello Ed Welcome to DB. Having fun? I hope so.

[sanso]

Hey Ed, welcome to DB!
With a green elios, do You think people will be able to see You in the pond at all?

[EdHornby]

funnily enough, when there's an algae bloom in dorry I do get a bit lost in the greeniness :-)

[calamar feliz]

hi ed, i'm new to the forum too, and also living in manchester. is there anywhere you practice? i have just done the DeeperBlue SETT course and hoping to organise some practice thru my scuba club (orca in chorlton) but any other opportunities welcomed !

[naiad]

Hi Ed, welcome aboard!

[Spierre]

Hi Ed, tell me more about your monofin. Where is the crack on the monofin and what material is it made of? Can you send me a pic then maybe I can give some advice how to fix it as I manufacture monofins.

[EdHornby]

Originally Posted by Spierre

Hi Ed, tell me more about your monofin. Where is the crack on the monofin and what material is it made of? Can you send me a pic then maybe I can give some advice how to fix it as I manufacture monofins.

thanks for the assistance Spierre - it's a waterway and there is a crack in the fibre at the bottom. it has been repaired with glue but this hasn't lasted so the plan is to scrape all the glue off and get another patch of fibreglass on both sides of the blade itself (this may make it a bit stiffer but that's not a problem really).

However if you can see a flaw in this plan, or you have any ideas this would be cool... cheers

[apneaboy]

Hi Ed. Welcome to DB.

See you in about 8 hours ready for a Hardcore day of diving at Dorry, 10 of us i reckon in all :-)

I've remembered the mono for you to use until you get that one fixed or get another. Maybe take a picture of that crack from a few inches away rather than accross the street so we can see it. lol.

See ya.

p.s. Congrats on your pb static the other night too. VV Good :-)

[LachlanWA]

I have fixed a mono crack before, I used a small patch of fibreglass on both sides. Make sure sure you sand it really well on both sides so the patch sticks well. Since you're adding glass to it, it doesn't really matter too much if you thin it down a bit. I used some chopped strand mat and polyester resin, put the patch on, overhanging the end, then while the resin was still green, used a stanley knife to trim it back to the level of the fin. When the resin is hard, give it a good sand to make it flush. It might be worth trying to put a bit of compression on it as it cures to squeeze out some of the excess resin, say a couple of phone books. To stop it sticking to what ever you use to compress it, use a smooth waxed surface. (I didn't bother with the compression)

Hope this helps and welcome to the site
Lachlan

[Spierre]

Hi Ed,

The advice I would add to the above is make sure you use epoxy resin as I am fairly sure that is the type of resin used to manufacture the fin, also I recommend using a lightweight fibreglass cloth (about 200g) on both sides, just big enough to overlap by ± 4cm on either side of the split. The reason for using epoxy is that polyester resin does not bond as well as epoxy to epoxy. Hope this is helpfull.

[EdHornby]

cheeers for the advice guys, I think I may ask someone who regularly does fibreglass repairs as they would be able to get a more accurate patch - I can see myself doing a cackhanded job

many thanks
Ed