question on bubbles...

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mranum

mranum

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I wasn't even going to turn this down. I cast it a week ago in PR and when I pulled it from the mold all the feather tips were covered in jillions of teeny tiny bubbles. Almost frost like look to it. Mad, I tossed it to the side and didnt look at it again until this morning and 90+% of those air bubbles were gone. I missed them while taking these pics, must have just been out of view but they are there.

Is this..or can this be an example of a resin that hadn't fully cured yet? Shop temp was in the upper 60's. I used 3 drops catalist per ounce. The PR I used was Castin Craft.

I was under the impression that if there were bubbles when the resin set, they were there for good. :confused:







 
FWIW, rod builders coated the feathers with color preserver to prevent bubbles or moving on the rod blank.
Would casting and then using a vacuum to pull the bubbles out? Still learning.
 
Well, they say that your hair and fingernails keep growing for a bit after you kick the bucket, so maybe the feathers needed the air in the bubbles to grow into the bubbles and then pegged it. :confused:
Just a theory, mind you....:biggrin:
 
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