Gelcoat Cracks
My friend who is not a memeber of the forum asked me to post this for him. He has a 11 yer old class A, good brand(I don't want to talk bad about the brand) who is still in business, and he has the...
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Terryallan wrote: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
What color is the gelcoat. Gel coat is NOT part of the glass. It is what the glass is attached to. Why would it have gel coat, if it was not colored?
I assume its white? if your going to paint different colours over it I assume its a base white? sure as heck not black that I know but not a expert on gel coat other than know what it is.In fact I dont know if they use gelcoat on these units or just paint the fibreglass?I assumed it was coated with a base white gel coat and then painted?
