: It really didn't get the big ones that are pulling away from a point like
: I've seen with contamination, just an observation that a particularly
: heavy application bordering on 'orange peel' can lead to what some folks
: call fisheyes. I've put fill coats on in a dusty shop where I had to use a
: shop brush to get the dust off and there was no problem. There's a funny
: viscosity interaction to epoxy when it's spread out on some partially
: cured epoxy surfaces. That's where the comment about using an adhesive as
: a coating comes from, the stuff doesn't go on like paint and it's being
: used as a kind of coating. It's bonding on one side and not on the other
: while curing. Weird stuff epoxy is.

Well the reality is that surface tension dynamics really ARE weird stuff.

It is very hard to know what you are doing and what is happening just from
these posts.

I think I mentioned before how my brother gave me darkroom equipment, long ago, and I tried
to learn how to print photos and was having problems. We talked for hours on the phone
trying to figure out what I was doing wrong and finally found out I was putting the emulsion
side of the paper down instead of up. Of course if he had been there he would have seen the problem
immediately.

I'm not suggesting you're making such a basic mistake, only that it is really difficult to know
what's happening through a post. If we could be there and see what you mean, obviously it would
be much easier.

Back to surface tension. I would suggest you go over the surface with a foam brush and really push
the resin against the previous coat.

I do have times where a new coat or resin, over a green coat, wants to not break the surface tension.

I roll all my resin on. The roller makes air bubbles or foam in all but the wet-out of the glass layer.
I take this as a given and routinely go over this surface to "tip off' or break the bubbles. AS I do this,
I also use the brush to smooth out the new resin, push it into spots where the surface tension is
resisting and to smooth drips and runs.

I think if you apply some pressure with a brush in those trouble spots it will help.

All the best,

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com