Mark, as well as waxing the be-jesus out of the mold and cutting down on the amount of hardener in your mix (longer working time of course, but also probably not as warm a cure), try using pva over the wax as a mold release. See what you local fiberglass guy thinks about that anyhow. Alistair
-- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94 albell@uvic.ca http://homepage.mac.com/alistairbell/home/
on 7/27/02 1:29 PM, Mark Thoma wrote: > but apparently pushing the resin around the mold with a paintbrush was a big > mistake. The brush removed the wax from parts of the mold and when I went to > lift the scoop out of the mold it wouldn't come. |
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