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After getting over the initial anger of a pair of bubbles and some movement in the outer hood surface I'm going to let it cook in the Kansas summer sun and then evaluate it in the Fall regarding how to go. Everyone I've talked to says that a couple of months should have been plenty of time for total cure, regardless what temperatures it was during that time, but then something "cooked off" to cause some bubbles. Not the end of the world. Better to be looking at re-coating the hood than the top

Originally Posted by rspears

After getting over the initial anger of a pair of bubbles and some movement in the outer hood surface I'm going to let it cook in the Kansas summer sun and then evaluate it in the Fall regarding how to go. Everyone I've talked to says that a couple of months should have been plenty of time for total cure, regardless what temperatures it was during that time, but then something "cooked off" to cause some bubbles. Not the end of the world. Better to be looking at re-coating the hood than the top

to fix it will not to be re gell coated . part of it may be it is a black car and most air set resins start to move around 130 or so you have to post cure some stuff or glass needs to be very thick if air cured glass to hold up to the suns heat . i sanded most gell off as this is the first spayed in the mold if the glass part made that way many times there is void were there is not glass up to the gell then if not checked for voids. if you do not then they will pop up in the finish.i did a jegs drag 34 chevy roadster that young blood did the art for? went over every inch of the body with a nail and pop all the voids of before i started blocking it all out found many voids. i had to fill with glass filler.most voids were off the body lines . on turbo teds waymans grand national buick that was all VFN glass but the rear clip was steel and was black pick up a second place at cobo in detroit in the class were that car was placed in . on just the hood we stop counting hours of time past 40 hours in just the hood many hours on the parts