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Easy-lease and wet layup - fish eye problems

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By fatbaldbloke - 3/4/2012 2:39:35 PM

I'm having a bit of a 'mare.  I'm trying to make a flat carbon panel.  The "mould" is a sheet of glass.  I've coated it with easy-lease but when I put on the first layer of resin (EL2 fast) it fish-eyes straight away.  There seems no point letting the first layer dry to a tacky state as it's just pools of resin.  Should I just get on with laying the fibre straight on the wet resin.
I have also tried using the epoxy gel coat for the first layer but still had some fish-eyes plus as it went tacky it appeared to crystalise.  Wasn't right at all.  (Is it possible for gel coat to go off with storage in a fairly cold garage?)  It's also not particularly clear, it's a sort of smoky blue.
Not sure where to go now to get a decent wet layup flat sheet technique.  Any help gratefully received. 
By MikeH - 1/23/2014 10:10:23 PM

Update!Applied 2 coats of McGuires wax, perfect now no fish eyes and great release from molds. 
Thanks