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The moulds will still work just fine. Easy Composites official stand point on it is that vinyl tooling causes pinholing with the X-Preg system. I've done extensive testing with this, and I've found I get exactly the same results with vinyl tooling as I do with epoxy tooling, but the vinyl tooling seems to start to suffer a little bit earlier, ill only get 10 or 15 pulls before release becomes a bit harder (still ok, but no longer falling out of the mould) and little bits of gelcoat start to come off. With regards to the X-Preg component quality - exactly the same with epoxy and vinyl tooling.
I have found a much longer post-cure on the tooling before putting it into service helps. I'll do a regular post-cure cycle, but then do an extended soak at 90° for minimum 24 hours.
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