What resin/epoxy do I use to repair a crack on a composite ice hockey stick?

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What resin/epoxy do I use to repair a crack on a composite ice hockey stick?

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bbloom	bbloom posted 12 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 13	Hi, I would like to know what would be the best product to repair a crack that was occurred along the blades edge of my ice hockey stick. I need something that is extremely hard setting that can with-stand frequent impacts while playing. Hope someone can help! Regards Brien
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	A picture would be good as it would help us to understand the depth of the damage and if it is merely a resin crack or more structural. I’m confident we could supply you with materials and advice that would enable you to make your own hockey stick repair even if it was a structural problem. There are some specialist techniques for certain aspects of hockey stick repair but in the main part the materials are very similar to other repair processes. The resin to use would be our Rapid Repair Epoxy, it’s got a very high bond strength and a lot of flexural strength (good for taking impacts). The process you’ll be using mainly will be wet-lay and then binding the repair with shrink tape. We don’t sell a hockey stick repair kit as such but the materials and products that will be of a lot of use to you are: CarbonFibre Braided Sleeve (a type of tube/sleeve that can be slid over the stick). EpoxyRapid Repair Resin (this is an extra high performance repair resin which bonds better and has more flexural strength). CarbonFibre Unidirectional 250g (often used in hockey stick repairs). CompositesHigh Shrink Tape (very useful for winding round the repair whilst the resin cures). 200g Plain Weave 3k Carbon Fibre (often used in repairs). My suggestion would be to start with some resin, maybe an appropriate sized braid and also some Unidirectional. I would paint resin onto the damaged area, position unidirectional material either side of the damaged area and then slide the braid over and stretch it tight. Wet the whole repair through with the epoxy and then bind it tight with the shrink tape. Once the repair has cured, you can then sand and polish up the surface finish. Hope this helps. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant Tags carbon braid ice hockey repair Edited 12 Years Ago by Warren (Staff)
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Matthieu Libeert	Matthieu Libeert posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 955, Visits: 3.4K	Nice touch of pink behind your tekst warren I would do it the same way as warren said. I see you have some kind of texture on the blade, with a braided sleeve that covers the entire blade you'd lose that special designed texture for better handling of the puck and so on, could maybe cause some problems Isn't it just possible to just fill the crack with epoxy mixed with graphite powder?! Matthieu Libeert Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports website: www.mat2composites.com
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