Wondering if anybody’s tried using pigment with Solarez Zerovoc. Solarez site has nothing to address the question, the video of Zerovoc on YouTube has nothing related to color in it, and there doesn’t seem to be anything in the archives.
Planning to use Zerovoc to seal an EPS blank tomorrow and just have no idea whether mixing color in would be OK. It’s viscous as hell, so maybe it’s not even practical.
whats this stuff like to lam / hotcoat with?
Do a test
I’ve done solid color tints and pigments in the lams over the seal before (in epoxy) and I think that yields a better result with EPS. The times when I’ve done pigments directly over EPS I’ve incorporated the imperfections into the scheme by using abstracts and the like.
You’re using the Zerovoc to seal the blank so you’re already committed to doing another lam over that completely sealed and consistent texture. Even better if you’re doing it in PE resins.
doubled
Thanks. Yeah: I already painted the foam, during which I learned that Montana Gold actually will melt the 1.5lb US Blanks EPS. That’s actually why I wanted to add color, i.e. so that any Zerovoc in the (minor) melted spots would be colored instead of off white from the balloons alone. I’ll likely just do Zerovoc with balloons and then do a color lam as well, as suggested.
Not going to make this one the guinea pig – have had such bad results with delamming on EPS so far (this will be my last open cell US Blanks EPS board) that I think I’ll wait for a Marko blank to test the Zerovoc with color. Will definitely report on it when I do.
Just want to update this with some pertinent info (I don’t think it’s been commented on in the past).
I tried to do a UV Poly lam over 3 squeegee coats of Zerovoc (3 on each side of the board), along with spot touch ups where I suspected there might be some pinholes, even after 3 squeegee coats of Zerovoc per side – even following spackle, sanding, and Montana Gold dried for 2 days – and the results were an absolute disaster.
It turned out I must have had some gaps on the flats of the hull, where I felt the most confident the coat was thorough, and got major bubbling – air bubbles and what seemed to be bubbles related to EPS melt.
Just want to put out the word that if you’re going to try and do UV Poly over Zerovoc on EPS, it’s not as easy as 3 careful squeegee coats “and go.”
After that, I did the deck with epoxy and had no problems with the deck. The hull, though, I’m sure, is going to delam, even after my obsessive efforts to cut/drill/dremel into the air bubbles and get epoxy down into them.