The foot pads on my iSonic have given up. They have come loose and require replacements.

What are people using when replacing foot pads?

They are easy enough to get off an old board - slowly slowly with a razor blade under them and then glue on with waterbased (white, dries clear) Kwik Grip.
You'd find a near on free old board somewhere easily enough

Or if you want new, Hoop (Nude Boards) is getting them made up for his boards and he'd sell you a set I reckon?

Never throw out snapped boards - cut out the finboxes and cut off the pads

Bunnings pool tiles and a pot of contact glue, you'll be the most popular person on the beach...

yep, but I got mine from clark rubber, very cheap and seem to last. I shape mine with a right angle grinder, but think a router would do a neater job.

Hooksey,
The pads on both my 09 model iSonics have continually been the bane of my life. I'm continually regluing the thin upper layer of the EVA back onto the base layer. The big problem with the design of these footpads was the dual density two colour pads beautifully cut to match the livery of the board. They looked good but have proven to be hopeless in standing up to the rigours of continually going in and out of the footstraps. I notice SB have gone back to single colour and density pads on the '11 models like the '08 models previously (my '08 iSonic's footpads are still in perfect shape albeit they probably haven't had the same use as the other boards)

Sometime ago I tried sourcing SB replacement footstraps from the importer and was quoted $250 per set for the isonics - WTF

R1DER said...

I've been getting mine from here,
www.northshoreinc.com/store/pc/msg.asp?message=86
cheaper than any I could find in Oz

Rider,
I contacted them and they have some good stock in heaps of colours and different grip patterns but they estimated shipping would be around $60 to $75 dollars making the process somewhat expensive.

Might just make up some of my own.

barn if you have a heat gun try it on your on your practice pad, the stuff im using is $5 from great out doors 600x600, if you score it with a blade or router then using the gun will raise the pattern already there aswell as seal the foam that you have routed, keep in mind you wont have to route a deep just lightly score the surface and the heat will do the rest

LOL Why did people red thumb me for doing an poor job with my padz? Geez they are mine, and I can do what I want with them. My wonky padz aren't hurting anybody... bunch of jerks.

Or get in your way !

a bit of priceless info ill keep it in mind, I'm always destroying pads

I picked up a couple of those inter-locking eva tiles from Clark Rubber, and did as Barn said, using a 45deg pinpoint router cutter, but went with a diagonal 'diamond-like' pattern. The downside is they are a bit thick, but very comfy!

[edit] Hey Barn, that is an incredibly ugly-looking board! I'm inspired! I repainted a board a while back after doing some glassing & repairs and was going to give the kids (5 & 7) some paint, walk away & let them go nuts on it, unfortunately there was a good wind the following day and I needed to put a sugarcoat on it, so it's still white.

I'm sick of 'pretty' graphics & symmetrical patterns, going to try to make it into the ugliest board ever!

barn said...

Sailhack said...

I picked up a couple of those inter-locking eva tiles from Clark Rubber, and did as Barn said, using a 45deg pinpoint router cutter, but went with a diagonal 'diamond-like' pattern. The downside is they are a bit thick, but very comfy!

[edit] Hey Barn, that is an incredibly ugly-looking board! I'm inspired! I repainted a board a while back after doing some glassing & repairs and was going to give the kids (5 & 7) some paint, walk away & let them go nuts on it, unfortunately there was a good wind the following day and I needed to put a sugarcoat on it, so it's still white.

I'm sick of 'pretty' graphics & symmetrical patterns, going to try to make it into the ugliest board ever!

HAhaaha yep that paint job annoyed a lot of people.. And that square tail causes general outrage.... People not as artistically talented as me thought I should have gotten black pool tiles.

I used Posca Paint Pens for the spade, would be awesome to get some kids to paint a board with Posca Pens.. Ill have to rent some to paint my next one..

I found the pads to thick aswel, so I shaved off a few layers with the belt sander from the underside. This left the little pattern intact..

I thought the graphics were factory job oh well guess we can call a spade a spade