Hello all , I thought I would share my latest mistake ( lesson ) with you all and see if any wise soul can kindly shed some light on my problem and maybe suggest a solution.
I have just laminated the deck on a 9’0 noserider, fabric inlay, clear deck and base, 2 layers of 6 oz on deck, PU blank, poly resin. Room was 73 deg/ 60% hum/ cat at .75.
So I mixed my resin and poured. Straight away I felt the resin was not flowing as usual and I had a hard time waterfalling my laps. By the time I gott’er all done I thought ok, nice tight lam. Then I cut my lap- no problem but as was cleaning up and inspecting (obsessing) my work I noticed on one side of the deck what looked like dryish patches. This happened once before and after the hotcoat it looked like totally dry patches of cloth.
I dont think it was lack of saturation during laminating, I think it may have been that I dragged from stringer to rail later than usual. I think the resin may have been colder? than usual resulting in me taking longer than usual to get it done, resulting in me dragging the resin when it had started to gel. This is my inexperienced theory.
If anyone can give me any advice on why this happened and if possible a way to fix it before hotcoat I would be eternally grateful.
Cheers, and thanks so much for all your hard earned and kindly shared information.