By quinn - 2/10/2019 3:25:23 AM
My plug is done and I'm about ready to lay up a mold. This will be used for prepreg so I'm using premium resin tech rdr-1902 high temp surface coat and rdr-3212 resin. I have some concerns with the surface coat. It's a bit thicker than I imagined but I guess that's good so it won't run, however after mixing a small test batch, it seems pretty slow to release air bubbles. As you can see in the pic of my plug, there are areas with vertical walls and even a few areas of negative angle. For air to release from the surface coat as I brush it on, these bubbles need to rise to the surface to pop right? So any areas that are beyond vertical with a negative angle, I would think are gonna have a hard time releasing air. I picture a bubble just rising up against the surface of the plug and staying there. I'm wondering if I should apply the surface coat in partial areas with the plug oriented so surface coat I'm applying is face up, allowing better release of air bubbles. Do I need to bother? Or can I just brush it on the whole thing as it sits in the pic? Looks like pics got rotated 90 degrees, the pointed nose is up 
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By quinn - 2/20/2019 5:54:03 PM
I talked to the supplier about the distorted surface. They agreed most likely voids between laminate and coat that pushed out dimples when air heated. They recommended bagging the mold after wet lay to pull out air. I assume this is also going to pull out all excess resin so I probably need to go plenty of layers to get a good thickness. If I do it this way, can I pretty much ignore any air during wet lay and let the vac bag handle it? Resin has an hour pot life but I would still like to move pretty fast to get plenty of layers and get it bagged. Is all air gonna work it's way out?
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