Do I need to wait until it cures for scratch to dissapear


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I sanded my carbon fiber lip down with some a 80 grit and I'm on my second coat of epoxy after applying it a to a previous tacky coat and I still see the scratches and the road "rash" mini chips.

Is it going to turn invisible and sit into it properly once it cures fully or did I F something up in the prep phase or it's just the carbon weave that is scratched? I'm about to do a third tacky coat now and let it cure and level it with some 180 grit then probably do 2 other coats.

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Hanaldo - 5/15/2020 12:06:24 AM
TheMidnightNarwhal - 5/14/2020 11:44:01 PM
Hanaldo - 5/14/2020 11:22:47 PM
Yeh they won't disappear now unfortunately... They don't look like scratches though, they look like cracks. Scratches in the carbon will appear black and will only be visible on very close inspection. Those are white and quite visible, which tells me they are cracks in the underlying clear coat/resin.

Ah shoot ok. I tried to look again it is hard to say.

But then would all the other road rash small dots be small dot cracks or?

Not necessarily cracks, but damaged resin yeh. If it shows up as white or yellowish, anything but black, then it is in the resin.

But then wouldn't the 80 grit remove that damaged layer of the resin previously there? 

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