Strategy for applying this surface coat


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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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You can sand the bumps from the expanded voids flat, but they'll just bow out again during the cure cycle. Been there, done that. The only way to solve that is to hog the blistered areas out and re-fill with resin. I think you're better off abandoning it and doing another mold.  Sorry : (
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KLComposites - 2/19/2019 8:21:51 PM
You can sand the bumps from the expanded voids flat, but they'll just bow out again during the cure cycle. Been there, done that. The only way to solve that is to hog the blistered areas out and re-fill with resin. I think you're better off abandoning it and doing another mold.  Sorry : (

Figured that might be the case. Not a huge deal, I have enough surface coat and epoxy leftover. Just hope it goes better next time. I'll use fg so air is easier to see in the laminate.
Here's another thing I noticed when laying up, the 3212 epoxy turns into a thin jelly like substance within a couple minutes of mixing even though it has 1 hour pot life. Is this normal? I've never had epoxy do that until it's about to kick off. This does it right away and stays in that state for about an hour. I guess you could call it more of a raw egg white texture. I feel like it would wet out better and be less likely to have air in the laminate if it didn't turn to jelly like that. Just seems odd

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