Resin holes/lack on a wet layed up part


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GEFF
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Hi there

i just did a few tests and I have a problem I already had a few days ago without finding the origin.
When demoulding I heard a lot of crrrrrrac (It was extremely difficult to demould) annnnd: 
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As you can see resin sticked on the glass despite the use of chemical release agent so I'm wondering what are the differents possible reasons of this fail.... temperature? too early demoulding? fail when applying the release agent?
something else?

Since I'm here, what's the best way to cut Polypropylene Sheets? I'm thinking about using it instead of glass for the next time.

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GEFF - 10/26/2020 9:15:15 AM
For the polypropylene as a mould surface, I suppose the only difference to be the shining of the final part lower than the glass isn't it?
I ask this because I will sand and polish or make a top coat with xcr covering epoxy as a clear coat so in this case, is there any difference between poly and glass?
The interest for me of poly would be to invoid the release possible problems and poly is cheaper to replace when the mould plate is damaged with razor blade scratches to remove residues.

I perhaps should do another topic for this because it doesn t match with the title anymore ^^

Surface finish is one issue - and I wouldn't shrug it off, because really nothing beats a glass flat surface finish on carbon. 

But also polypropylene just scratches so much easier, you will be replacing it all the time. Glass should take a lot to scratch, if you do scratch it then you did something wrong (shouldn't take much effort to clean the surface with a razor blade, much less than it would take to scratch glass).

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