Hey guys,
Should surfacing veil be used with tooling gelcoats and molds only? Or can/should it be used when making gelcoated parts as well? (Parts will be wet layup with PER)
I only ordered enough to use in the creation of my mold…If veil is required for parts too, can I use something else? Tissue paper, paper towels, etc???
Thanks
Surfacing veil is use to block cloth print thru into the finish gel coat. If you wait awhile longer for the gel coat to cure, it should not pring thru or use thin FG mat and then the cloth…
Thanks, I didn’t want to take any chances. Although with the molds I showed you a while back, I didn’t use the veil, just chopped mat.
Well, the veil will go into unbelivable areas…plus if you need some, I think I have some around here…:rolleyes:
speaking of sagging…
would veil hold up gelcoat on a vertical surface?
in my mold making, I’m always had issues of my tooling gelcoat sliding down, and pooling. We don’t have a spray gun.
Gel coats should be thick enough to stay where sprayed even vertical walls too.
guess spraying is the only way to go.
It really is. Brushing can work ok sometimes, but the results simply aren’t consistent.
At a point, parts get too big to even consider brushing on gelcoat anyways.