Comments on: EPS FOAM

By: Will

Will — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:29:24 +0000

Thanks, Scott.

By: busbey

busbey — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:12:21 +0000

I’m not well versed on the XPS but here goes,the only Patagonia surfboards I have seen have all been done out of EPS beaded styrofoam. But I haven’t seen one in a couple of years so they may be using extruded now. I haven’t used extruded in some time now but when I did there was a problem with a lot of blow ups on the decks. The extruded that I had used had a very tight cell structure and the glass just didn’t bond as well. Or once sealed the blanks were still gassing, whatever several things were tried and nothing seemed to work out. Also at the time (late 80’s) trying to get 2 boards out of a billet was hard. The billets only came about 5″ thick and and they were to expensive to do one and you struggled to get 2. I’m sure a lot has changed since then. I can’t think of the guys name right now but he is in southern california and used the XPS and drills small pinholes in the finished product to allow the blank to “breathe” which is supposed to solve the bubbling problem.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:02:26 +0000

Scott,
I was in your shop about a month ago and spoke to you about this very issue. I also contacted Fletcher Chounard Designs and inquired about their form of EPS. The use extruded. What’s the pro’s and con’s of extruded vs. the type you use? No rush. Your next blog post topic?

By: busbey

busbey — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:02:16 +0000

The largest size I get is a 10 ft. block which I use for longboards but theoretically you can get any size you like.

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:49:39 +0000

gee scott; is that the block my board is coming out of? the way nursing classes and clinical’s are going of late, I’m REALLY going to need that board in June. how big are those blocks anyway? is there a size limit when you get them?