How to Remove Water from a Surfboard | Waterlogged

[@stevewild6709]

Excellent video..just wondering if you had 2 holes in a board would in your opinion low pressure compressed air blown in and allowed to vent through the second hole have the same or similar drying affect ...please and thanks

[@jamesroscoe7555]

Don't forget to epoxy those pin holes in the nose before you go out for a surf haha! Nice setup and the board looks great!

[@AndrewWorkshop]

LOL for sure, don't need to do this all over again!

[@noamnissenboim]

excellent way of dry surfboards. Thanks for sharing!

[@rgoc1119]

Gave this a try today on my SUP. Pros: Water droplets started moving immediately, albeit slowly. The pump is not very loud. Cons: The pump gets extremely hot within minutes. Large amounts of steam/oil start flowing out of the discharge port. I inhaled more of this than I care to think about, and that's working outdoors. If you did this indoors, you may need a new set of lungs afterwards. The pump rapidly burns through oil, you will need to frequently add oil if you intend to work on a heavily waterlogged board. I barely got enough water out to cover the bottom of a 1L mason jar after 45 minutes of operation. By this point, the oil level was visibly lower than at the start, there was oil bubbling at the inlet port (visible through the clear vinyl tubing), and oil spilling onto and around the machine. The entire machine was getting so overheated that it seemed dangerous to continue running it. Conclusion: Maybe it worked for getting water that was just taken in, at the vent, in a small board. For a 172L SUP, that has slowly taken on 4-5lbs of water over many years, this did not seem practical. You would have to have a pump that can handle many hours of operation without overheating and you would need to frequently monitor and top up the oil level. I estimate that at the rate it was pulling water, I would have to run it for a minimum of 60 hours to get it all out. I'm out ~$100 and a handful of hours of tinkering and making trips to the hardware store. Will likely abandon the project at this point and epoxy the barb hole and vent holes in the board.

[@rgoc1119]

Anyone have a link to the other video he mentions that covers the vacuum pump set up?

[@rgoc1119]

Do you think this could work on a SUP? I tried using a shop-vac on a heavily waterlogged 9 foot SUP several years ago, and I wasn't able to remove even a single drop of water, despite wedging the end of the vacuum directly into the foam and securing the perimeter with tape. Is the vacuum pump you linked superior to a shop vac for this purpose? I'm having doubts that a tiny pump can produce enough force to remove water from a 200L board.

[@bryannatusch2556]

The vacuum pump creates the suction and continues it while running, and a lot more negative pressure created than the shop vac

[@rgoc1119]

@@bryannatusch2556 I hope it works, will be trying on a 172 L SUP with approximately 7lbs / 3 L of water in it. In this video, I don't believe he mentions how many hours / days it took him to get all the water out, other than that it was "fast".

[@rgoc1119]

There's the large cap marked "oil" above the oil window area, and the second small red cap also labelled "oil". Which one do you add the oil through, and which one do you unscrew while running the machine? I see you have a towel over the machine, so do you unscrew the bigger black cap? ETA: Found this video which answered my question kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3ipi6mlobR5qcU ETA2: Looks like these models now come with an exhaust port that doesn't need to be opened or loosened for air flow. It's made with built-in holes and there's no longer a snap lid on top. It can still be unscrewed, which must be simply to remove it when its built-in filters get clogged and thus you can unscrew and replace this part with a new one as needed.

[@damian3263]

"Promo sm" 💯