Hazy GC50


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wochi
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Hi all,



i finished my first part today using GC50 gel coat. Poblem is that the part got hazy and on an yellowish side.
What could be the problem? I sprayed the mould with gel coat spraying gun, let it cure for about 4 hours (25º over here) and then epoxy infused. Into the oven, cured at 50º for 8h.
The primarly objective was to fill the pinholes that i allways get no matter how perfect is the insfusion, and that resulted very well! But when i look at the part compared with other with no gel coat is very noticable the difference. The yellow tone i can understand as beeing a polyester gel coat. But the haze is a big problem.
Any ideas for the cause of this?

Thank you!
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Personally I think solve the problem as to why you are getting pinholes, coatings are just a bandaid fix. But that's not really very helpful. 

Can you perhaps measure your gelcoat thickness? I'm not sure how sensitive the GC50 is to thickness (Warren?), but I know some gelcoats need to be pretty spot on 25 micron. Perhaps your issue is not thick enough rather than too thick, leading to undercuring of the gelcoat? I sort of doubt that though. 

How about catalyst, can you rule out catalyst being an issue? How old is it, what level are you catalysing at? Do you get your catalyst from EC or another supplier? 
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