Bubbling at the end of the degas


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Dear all, I need again your precious advices. I started a couple of years ago to make composite laminates by using vacuum infusion with easycomposite equipment and materials. I am satisfied of the laminates that I obtain. However, last week I experienced a new problem. I was degasing the resin+hardener before the infusion (I use the EC20 pump with the big vacuum chamber), the bubbling phase was almost finished, and then, suddenly, the bubbling started again for few seconds. Afterwards, it started again and then stopped after few seconds. This was repeated few times before I stopped the process. It was the first time that this happened. However, I decided to make the infusion with that resin and the results is that I had some voids in the plate that I produced (of course the bag was super OK). Anyone of you can help me regarding this problem? Any Idea?
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Hanaldo - 2/11/2021 11:56:45 PM
Likely to be some moisture in there. If the hardener is a bit old then that is the likely culprit, epoxy hardeners are hygroscopic and will absorb a bit of moisture from the atmosphere.

In any case, degassing isn't necessary for void-free results with infusion, so the fact you got some voids in your laminate isn't likely to be due to the fact the resin didn't degas.

Thanks a lot Hanaldo for your message. The hardener and the resin were new. I opened them few minutes before mixing. I could try a new infusion without degasing but I am not sure if this is the problem.

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