Sanding laminating resin or "No, I thought I put the wax in"

General Discussion
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Hi

First off, many thanks for answering so many of my questions on my way to making a mess of No. 2.  No.1 turned out way better than hoped thanks for advice from Sways and a local shaper.

I have painted a resin pinline and forgotten to put the wax in.  I put it on thick to get the coverage thinking that I could sand it back.  My problem is that it has drips and runs and cannot be sanded.  I have done some research here and saw that someone said that if you hot coat the laminating resin, it can be sanded.  I am going to have to go through and hot coat it to take out the drips.  Will this work?  If not any suggestions on clean up?  

If I must I will just flatten it off, I will hot coat over it, it will look bad and another lesson will  (hopefully) be learned.

Many Thanks.

 

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Use gloss resin next time with lots of pigment and kick it fast. Don’t pull tape until you know it won’t drip, but if you kickit fast enough it shouldn’t drip. 

sanding lam resin will gum up your paper and won’t work. i’d take some lam resin w/ surfacing agent and brush it on the pinline. once cured, sand pinline off. prep again and redo the thing correctly

good luck

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Sometimes you can merely wipe off the pinline with acetone.  You can however; retape and hotcoat over the pinline.  When it has set tacky pull the tape.  When it has set completly, sand it.  If you oversand some areas of the pin, you may be able to touch up the pin,  If it were mine I would sand it off and start over following asteven’s advice.