hello,

I have repaired lots of tubes with yachts masts, booms and bicycles frames.

If the break is in a straight enough section of the tube then best to glue in an internal sleeve tube and let this set in the right way/shape. Then grind an appropriate area away removing the broken bits and creating a taper, then do your external laminate so the finished tube section is now smooth to look at but is probably twice as thick and much stronger than the original tube.

Since it is 90% broken you should just cut it through to start fresh.

The laminate you add can then be wrapped with a 20mm wide strip of peel ply to compress and smooth things out. Remove when cured and sand to shape further, finish with a resin coat or paint.

And a final tip is don't use any Kevlar as this will be easier to do and deal with.


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John