First part not totally released, clues needed


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Hi, I made my first part out of my first mould.
99% released fine but for some small areas where the tooling gelcoat merged with the gelcoat, please see pics.

I need your expert advise to understand what I did wrong not to repeat.

Mould made on Sunday, removed from pattern on Monday.
Left to rest until Thursday.

On Thursday, compounded with nw1 and polished with topfinish2.
Cleaned 2 times with ec mold cleaner.
One additional cleaning with acetone.
6 passes of Easy Lease every 15 mins
2 additional passes of miracle Gloss framed 15 mins
Left overnight to rest

On Friday two layers of white gelcoat framed one hour then hand layup with polyester laminating resin.

Demolded after 24 hours. It released pretty fine (with a bit of compressed air) but for the spots.

Any clue about what happened?
I think it is almost impossible I missed 6+2 times just those few spots...

Thanks a lot




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oekmont - 5/11/2020 10:54:24 AM
This is not a undercured mould issue. You can clearly see how bad the tool edges look around the chipping. You can see al lot of defects where the white gelcoat broke off with the mould. And there a white lines wich look like there were still marks of goarse grit sand paper. There was a lot of small scale interlocking, and this caused the mould edges to chip off. If you did not sand the mould, you plug was clearly not ready to take a propper mould from. Take more care finishing your plug.

Thank you, I will!
Now I have the dilemma: should I try to fix the mold, build a new mould from the part (after a lot of fixes...) or start over from the plug (need to find someone able to machine mdf... I am done with xps)

What would you do?

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mporta71 - 5 Years Ago
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             Thank you!
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oekmont - 5 Years Ago
hojo - 5 Years Ago
mporta71 - 5 Years Ago
hojo - 5 Years Ago
                         Ok, so what do you use to infuse a tool? Directly reinforcement and resin?
mporta71 - 5 Years Ago
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hojo - 5 Years Ago
             Thanks for the suggestions!
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oekmont - 5 Years Ago
             Thank you!
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