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Easy-lease and wet layup - fish eye problems
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By fatbaldbloke
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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
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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