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Is it kooking it to go back to a shop if on day one you realize the board you bought is warped, or is it my bad for not checking
Not your fault. Kinda nobodies fault. Go get it replaced if it's badly warped.
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related, is there a thread here for fixing warped boards? is that even possible
You can just skate it and it might un-warp quickly. Depends on how bad the warp is though.
If that doesn't work, you'd need to press it between 2 unwarped decks i guess
Yeah first I would contact the shop, if you are not within easy distance to go back in yourself and send them a pic of the board showing the warp, usually looking down the board from end to end and one corner is going to sit higher than the other.
Second, only if they don't do anything or you don't want to take it back or talk to them, I have done this to fix a warped board in the past and it has worked quite well, but it takes time, maybe a week or more sitting under something heavy with the counter side lifted to "bend" the board back to the straight posiition.
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related, is there a thread here for fixing warped boards? is that even possible
I believe there is. Ask @Mbrimson88 he swears by parking his car on a warped bloard. Or you can try putting a stack of decks and other heavy stuff on top of it for a few weeks.
How do you determine if a board is warped or not besides just looking at it? I have some decks that’s a few years old that I wanna use but don’t wanna waste grip on a warped deck
As said above, the best way is to look down from end to end, matching up the corners of the kicks, as usually they should be straight and match up together, but if a board is warped one corner will sit up higher than the other.
The park under car is the best way to flatten out the kicks, but to offset the warp, place under significant weight and leave for a week is the best way I found to fix a warped deck. I guess you could also do that under a car tyre, but I think having full weight on the whole board works better than just the single kick under a tyre method.
All trial and error though, so I guess someone could have done that and made it work.