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Pinholes in gelcoat

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By 67redrocket - 12/19/2015 1:13:55 PM

My first mould with tooling gelcoat was perfect!

Al my other atempts have had pinholes. I know they can be fixed by applying gelcoat in the holes. But it takes time, and I usually dont get the same goss after sanding down the applyed gel coat. 

Is the unimould system better? will this leave me less pinholes? 

Can I apply the gel coat with the ES G100 cup gun instead? Will this leave less pinholes? 
By Hanaldo - 12/22/2015 3:52:23 AM

Ah yes, apologies, I misread the first post thinking this was using a vinyl ester tooling gelcoat. 

I agree with Mark, the epoxy tooling system is extremely viscous and you need to be very meticulous about the way you apply the gelcoat. You will find the Unimould system is somewhat more forgiving.