Semi-disastrous epoxy gloss

I’m sure this title is nothing surprising to most of you. I gloss coated my first board using greenlight epoxy and it came out with micro bubbles/pin hole artifacts everywhere. Really bummed since I took the time and effort to use the heated cheater squeegee coat first method. Also made sure the board was clean by using isopropyl / passing tape over. Room was around 72°F. I’d really appreciate if anyone has advice for next time.

The real disaster is that I apparently didn’t mix my bottom main coat enough (or my scale fked the ratio up, which is more probable considering it can’t differentiate between 5g and 15g sometimes) and now have a roughly 20 in x 8 in area that’s still gummy. The rest of the board seems to have cured fine. Unsure how to proceed here besides just scraping it off and painting on some properly mixed epoxy on this area. I really want to avoid doing another whole gloss coat.

Board is looking good though. Thank you all… this forum was vital. Tested the boxes today and they box.

Gummy probably come from a mix problem, nothing to do but scrap it off. Pinholes, zits, fish eyes, all sound funky epoxy finish. I bet your alcool clean play : alccol often have residue in, better here to use acetone. With new paper towel. Everything you use to clean must be new and clean… No solvent clean before epoxy finish is my religion LOL. Only clean with epoxy mix, squegee on and mostly off, wait to tacky stage and brush quickly a thick coat of epoxy so it can lay flat without separation.

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Better pictures would help.