How To Install Hydro Turf

06-24-2007,ten:05 PM

Im getting set up to install my new mats! Just looking for whatsoever advice or little things that I might run into that anybodys had prior expierence with! One affair Id like to observe out is if anybodies got a practiced way of containing the factory rivots when there drilled out so that they arent just laying around in my hull!

06-24-2007,10:06 PM

when applying the mats, I use DAP Gel contact cement.
No runs

http://www.hydrotoys.com/gpr/tuners/rx951/mats/

06-25-2007,06:53 AM

the mats were a bowwow for me

06-05-2008,11:42 AM

i bought a open box fix off of ebay. Anyone have instructions on how to do this? how do you fill up the holes were the former mat used to stick in?

06-05-2008,02:21 PM

Promise this helps!

Not sure if you lot have installed Hydro-Turf before, but I accept twice. Once on my 1996 XP and one time on my 2004 RXP. The RXP took one-half the time equally the 1996 XP did, every bit doing the 1996 XP was my commencement fourth dimension and I was learning a lot. I pretty much did every part of the 1996 XP mat install wrong. lol.

Depending on your ski you volition have to drill the sometime mat rivets out. Take a drill and drill them out. Depending on how muddy it is under the mats, take a rag, get it damp and put a few dabs of Dawn soap on the rag. Wipe down the expanse where the mats volition be. Have a medium dust sand block and lightly sand the surface area where the new mats will go. Have some other damp rag and wipe off the grit and soap that is left behind. Make full in the holes with the epoxy that comes with the Hydro-Turf. If you accept a friend virtually by, take him practise 1 side while y'all exercise the other. People say to use a stick to wipe the epoxy into the holes, I but used my finger. Much easier and faster. Wash your hands when you are done. Allow the epoxy dry out a few hours.

Hydro-Turf volition recommend DAP Weldwood glue. You lot tin go it almost any hardware store. You just demand one can. Purchase the cheapest paintbrush. Exercise ONE MAT Department AT A Time! Take the mat you wish to put on the ski and do a exam fit on the ski. This gives you an idea of where to utilise the mucilage to ski. Apply a good amount of Weldwood mucilage to the ski where yous program on laying down the mat. Better to use a little more than not enough. Watch the glue dry out, literally. lol. Once the glue starts to go slightly tacky, take the mat section that matches the area on the ski where you put the glue on. Take that mat and apply an even sparse glaze of mucilage to the underside of the mat. Make sure y'all cover the whole mat, including the edges. DO NOT PUT THE MAT ON THE SKI Notwithstanding! The glue on the mat will await shiny. Wait for information technology to get unshiny or look similar a matte finish (this could take up to 10 minutes. relax, the glue isn't going to dry out hard on you). At this point information technology will feel tacky. In one case it is not shiny, line it up and showtime from i side and press down firmly. Work your way across to the other side. If you exercise it right, information technology should stay stuck down and non lift up at all. If the mats lift upwardly, when you do the next section let the mucilage set longer earlier you apply the mat to the ski. Do this for each mat section. Depending on weather, let them dry for at to the lowest degree 3 days.

If you go your Hydro-Turf and you pull it out of the handbag and it doesn't lay flat, take a heat gun or hair dryer and heat the mats upwardly and flake. Play with them and form them to lay apartment.

If you install it right, the Hydro-turf should never elevator upwardly. I did my RXP a yr agone and the turf all the same looks brand new. As for the 1996 XP, I layed down the mat after I applied the glue and the mats lifted up. I had to go on pressing it down to get it to finally stay. A few times on the water and the mats lifted upward in the forepart edges on the 1996 XP.

Have fun! I wish I could do information technology for you, applying Hydro-Turf is fun!

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06-05-2008,xi:45 PM

When I have to do mats again I would definitely get the ones with peel and stick. Well worth the extra $20. My ski's an 05 RXP(black top deck). The contact cement is xanthous/brown. I was very careful applying the glue, but you lot tin can't avert getting some to show off to the sides of the mats. Information technology's ugly, and it's nigh forever! I actually think N.A.S.A. uses information technology to glue the ceramic tiles to the nose of the space shuttle! If your skis top deck is black, I would look into neoprene wet adapt contact cement. It'southward blackness.
What helped me, was to lay out the mats and pencil around them. Then attempt to keep the glue within the lines. (The lines are our friends) After brushing the glue onto the deck, and the back of the mats, let information technology dry untill it's not tacky to the bear on. The stuff is skillful to use for over two hours at this point. So employ wax paper to the back of the mats and trim it close. When your gear up to start laying down your mats,(I start at the front end)skin back a little of the wax paper and carefully stick the the mat to the hull. If yous get it crooked or in the wrong place, your probably screwed. Recollect, contact cement is about forever! Holding the remainder of the mat off the deck, y'all can peel dorsum the wax paper a footling at a time and press your mat into place every bit you go. Hope this helps. Good luck

OBJ

06-06-2008,12:58 AM

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am worried the kit i got does not include what is needed to plug the holes. Annihilation i tin can purchase at the stores to do that? marine grade silicone i'd think?

06-06-2008,01:40 AM

that or some kind of Epoxy is what the hydroturff inst. say

06-06-2008,08:33 AM

5200 quick dry worked adept for me, once it dries it permanent..also i put a piece of tape undernieth to keep from dripping downwards.that blue masking tape equally it volition release

06-06-2008,03:xiv PM

I would recall that any kind of silicone or epoxy would be fine, just honestly it'southward probably non even necessary since no water can become under the mats. I did utilize epoxy though. It dries quick and you lot tin get right to the gluing.

OBJ

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