Easy-lease and wet layup - fish eye problems


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fatbaldbloke
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I'm having a bit of a 'mare.  I'm trying to make a flat carbon panel.  The "mould" is a sheet of glass.  I've coated it with easy-lease but when I put on the first layer of resin (EL2 fast) it fish-eyes straight away.  There seems no point letting the first layer dry to a tacky state as it's just pools of resin.  Should I just get on with laying the fibre straight on the wet resin.
I have also tried using the epoxy gel coat for the first layer but still had some fish-eyes plus as it went tacky it appeared to crystalise.  Wasn't right at all.  (Is it possible for gel coat to go off with storage in a fairly cold garage?)  It's also not particularly clear, it's a sort of smoky blue.
Not sure where to go now to get a decent wet layup flat sheet technique.  Any help gratefully received. 
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MikeH
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Hi Paul,
When you stated easy lease is troublesome with gelcote your right.
I cleaned my moulds with your cleaner it took ages to get to the glossy original surface.
I then carefully applied the six coats of easylease using separate cloths for each layer and allowing well over an hour for the final coat to set.
It looked great at this point but when I applied a light misting coat of polyester gelcote as usual,  it immediately fisheyed over the whole surface and no matter how many further light coats i applied it wouldn`t stick to the fisheyed areas.
I continued and hand layed up the moulding anyway with epoxy resin and after curing the following morning it did release great but looked like it had the measles.
As an experiment and in desperation I applied a coat of my usual wax OVER THE TOP OF THE EASYLEASE and it polished up to a nice shine.
The second moulding I sprayed the polyester gelcoat and got about 90% coverage with only a few small fisheyes present (better).
On the following day I sprayed again not adding any more wax to the mould and it was worse! ( could it be that the wax I applied to the previous "more successful"  molding is not adhering over the easylease?)
So i`m wondering what to do next, carry on applying more coats of wax or is there another method with your easylease product?
Thanks in anticipation. 
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