Got a gallon of regular resin that I want to use to hot coat a board that we used UV to laminate. Anyone see any problems with this? I once used regular resin to put my art down and then used UV to laminate and the lams yellowed a bit. Could have been operator error but before I pull the trigger on this one I wanted to post.
Use the right resin for the right job. Without UV inhibitors it will probably turn yellow again.
Anthony
Howzit kelvin, were the lams printed on an ink jet printer, I’ve had some bleedage problems with them but it’s not the resin it’s the ink. When those lams bleed they only bleed to the edge of the rice paper so now I trim as close to the lam as possible, no more bleeding. For some reason it’s the yellow that bleeds. I use UV resin for every step but I catalyze my hot coats to kick them off. Aloha, Kokua
The lams were printed on a computer printer but I don’t remember them having excess paper. They yellowed pretty soon after the board was finished. Not real bad but enough that I noticed it. Anyway, guess I’ll give it a try and then see what happens. Mahalo
Kokua is right on on this one. Absolutly nothing wrong with using catalyzed hotcoat over UV. If you had yellowing on the lam, it’s the lam Ink. Mcding
Howzit kelvin, here's a tip that works 90% of the time, spray some Krylon clear acrylic on both sides of the printed lam, maybe 2 coats and let dry throughly. It helps keeping the ink from bleeding. The yellow bled when the board was lamed but probably didn't show because yellow is a light color. Aloha,Kokua
Here’s another trippy little tip. I learned this when I started back building boards 5years ago. I started right of the bat using UV. There is a UV reaction with reds , yellows, oranges etc. They will delam and bleed sometimes if applied with UV. Whenever I use one of my yellow lams(which look really nice by the way), I apply it under the glass with a dixie-cup full of catalyzed resin. I squeege it out , lay my glass over and start layin’ up my glass whith UV. The catalyzed resin kicks off right away. I never get any delams on my sticker due to the UV, if done this way. I never get any bleed on my lams anyway, because PJ in Carpenteria did them for me and they are screen print of the highest quality. He’s the man in SB for Lams. McDing