Gelcoat Cracks

prism wrote:

Terryallan wrote:
Unless things have really changed. The "Paint" IS the gelcoat. Gelcoat is a color. It is the color of your RV. Usually with clear on it. And in my experience. The mold is gelcoated, and then the fiberglass is worked onto it. Fiberglass comes out of the mold "painted" the color its going to remain. It comes out waxed as well. That how they keep the gelcoat from sticking to the mold.

In other words. You want a blue fiberglass RV. You spray blue Gelcoat in the mold, and glass to it.

As for the Gelcoat cracking. It will often get spider webbed. But it is highly unlikely the glass itself cracked. It is still water tight.

Thats Not what we are discussing here at all. Diesel pushers are full body PAINT with clear coating.Colour is NOT in the fibre glass on these units.It,s paint over gelcoat and then clear coated and these ar not spider cracking situations

My Diesel Pusher is not full body Paint. Many brands of the later model diesel pushers do have full body paint, but not all of them. In fact, til a couple years back most were still gelcoat, even the highlines like Foretravel. In fact, the OP was talking about a 11 year old Class A which most likely was gelcoat. I think Tiffin was one of the first to go with Full Body Paint, and not all that long ago.