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Fcs 2 fin removal tool full#
It also means no more need to take a screwdriver (or allen key) with you, no more fiddling with screws and plates with tired, cold fingers after a long paddle and no more searching for the screw that slipped out of your hand in the car park.įCS II Fins have limited availability in the UK at the moment but SUP North have some for sale here including the touring fin reviewed and the Danny Ching Race fin.Are you a kook?! Check out the /r/Surfing WIKI page! It's full of helpful information and if you ask something covered in it, you may be taunted, hassled, shamed, bullied or given the wrong answer on purpose. Finish paddling, remove fin and (carefully) put your board down, limiting damage to the leading edge of the fin and prolonging fin life. The ease that a fin can be removed and stored means that balancing your board on your expensive fin as you find a tool to remove it can now be a thing of the past.
Is the FCS II Fin system worth a premium over the standard fin? For this paddler, yes. If you do more paddling backwards you might want to be careful but on a normal paddling day there’s no more risk of this fin going missing on the water than a screw undoing on an older fin. Because the metal pin is at the front of the base any pressure on the fin when travelling forwards will simply push the fin into the board, pivoting around the pin. The fin we have has caught in mud flats, on unseen debris in the water and, accidentally on a mooring rope and it was still there post paddle. There is probably some hydrodynamic benefit in having no screw in front of the fin but that would be hard to detect by any normal paddler. On the water the fin behaved exactly as a fin should, tracking with a 9″ fin on a race board is good and it doesn’t catch on debris or weed. To remove simply pull the fin up and slightly forward and again the lack of effort belied the secure fitting. The lack of pressure needed was a surprise as was the tenacity of the mechanism, I could lift the board by the fin. The nearest board to hand was a 2016 Allstar, which from experience has a shorter fin box than some and has caused a bit of headache fitting fins with screw plates in (for example a JB Runner fin from Futures is a very tight fit) However with no tab for a screw increasing the length of the base the FCS II fin slotted straight in. The shape and area of the fin are unchanged.įirst thing was to see how springy the spring felt, and surprisingly it didn’t feel springy at all with barely any movement under thumb pressure. The screw less system adds £10 to the cost but results in a fin that has a far neater appearance.
Fcs 2 fin removal tool upgrade#
The updated version of a massively popular fin often seen as a first upgrade on any number of boards.
The fin on test is the FCS II SUP Touring Fin. This video from FCS shows the system in action FCS think it should last for 4,000 insertions / removals and could even outlast your board. By using materials that do not corrode the system should work with little or no maintenance, and as the spring is relatively short and relatively thick it should last years and years. The fin is held in place by a titanium spring and plastic, or polymer roller. The system is the same across surf or SUP fins, twin tab or standard fin box, the only differences being in the size of the fin and the metal tabs on the standard fin box system. Ever lost the screw or plate from your fin? Or forgotten your screwdriver or allen key only realising after you got the board out of the bag? Or rounded off the grub screw on a surf fin? Someone at FCS must have so they came up with a simple way to do away with screws and still hold the fin securely in place.
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