Peel ply wart problem

[Samuel Langhorn]

There has been a 2011 thread on the subject.
Peelply in handlaminate: uneven surface
Discussion in 'Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building' started by querulant, Sep 16, 2011.

unfortunately the issue was never resolved.
I am encountering the exact same problem. Extremely annoying.

The warts show up exactly the same way as described in the old thread.

Does anyone have a solution?
I am building a 23' trimaran. I am sheathing the final layer of basalt fabric around the ama.

I have used strips of peel ply for the bulkhead fairings and it went all well. Now with larger surfaces I start having this issue.

Greetings
SL

 

[rob denney]

There has been a 2011 thread on the subject.
Peelply in handlaminate: uneven surface
Discussion in 'Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building' started by querulant, Sep 16, 2011.

unfortunately the issue was never resolved.
I am encountering the exact same problem. Extremely annoying.

The warts show up exactly the same way as described in the old thread.

Does anyone have a solution?
I am building a 23' trimaran. I am sheathing the final layer of basalt fabric around the ama.

I have used strips of peel ply for the bulkhead fairings and it went all well. Now with larger surfaces I start having this issue.

Greetings
SL

Generally it is the peel ply deforming and recovering.. Squeegee along the run of the peel ply fibres rather than at an angle to them.

 

[Samuel Langhorn]

Generally it is the peel ply deforming and recovering.. Squeegee along the run of the peel ply fibres rather than at an angle to them.

Hi Rob,
thanks for the comment. That's what I also thought, the peel ply should sit stress free on the epoxy.

Looks like the problem is different. Simply too much epoxy. For the next section I made sure to squeegy out all unnecessary epoxy before I put the peel ply layer on top.

.... quite some learning to do. I added a few patches of second layer peelply where I thought there might be too much epoxy. The result was that the too much epoxy was wicked out of the underlying fabric. The other issue I ran into was that by the time I had finished putting epoxy on the first part had already cured to the extent that it would not bond properly with peelply.... looks like adding peelply in phased with the progress is the way to go.

Greetings
SL

 

[rob denney]

Hi Rob,
thanks for the comment. That's what I also thought, the peel ply should sit stress free on the epoxy.

Looks like the problem is different. Simply too much epoxy. For the next section I made sure to squeegy out all unnecessary epoxy before I put the peel ply layer on top.

.... quite some learning to do. I added a few patches of second layer peelply where I thought there might be too much epoxy. The result was that the too much epoxy was wicked out of the underlying fabric. The other issue I ran into was that by the time I had finished putting epoxy on the first part had already cured to the extent that it would not bond properly with peelply.... looks like adding peelply in phased with the progress is the way to go.

Greetings
SL

Apply resin as evenly as you can, apply the peel ply, then squeegee the laminate stack.

It's highly unlikely the peel ply wicked epoxy out of the laminate. More likely too much squeegee force.

 

[fallguy]

It is the peelply.

I have used two types of peelply and they both behaved very differently. The redline peelply was a bit stiffer; rather expensive, but always released easily off the mould.

I have another green peelply and that stuff is lighter and if I don't double wax my table everytime, I habe terrible releases. Never had warts.

But something is allowing the peelply to move or causing it to move for you.

Use another style of peelply and see what happens.

It would also be good to share the glass used. To me, it looks like you are using roving and the peelply is changing shape to exotherm or a dynamic of the peelply fabric itself...