Thread: Milky finish

Yes,

Probably there is some moisture in the epoxy from condensation or direct drops of water or from water left in the brush.

You can sometimes get it to disappear by warming up the epoxy with a hot air gun - BUT YOU HAVE TO BE REALLY CAREFUL

Keep the air gun moving - waving backwards and forwards and touch the surface with your hand from time to time .. if it gets hot for your hand it is getting close to being too hot for the epoxy too.

There is probably little chance of it completely disappearing, but it was a moisture problem.

MIK

Thanks Mik for that info
N.T. just had a tropical low pass our door step and dump 260mm
in two days and this dope decides this is the time to apply epoxy
well its back to the sanding and waiting for a better day
once again thanks

I did mean you can try the hot air gun (or a blow dryer now). Sometimes it can get a lot of it out. But make sure you don't get it too hot.

It can be a bit risky using hot air guns much on freshly applied epoxy as it makes the epoxy run and can heat the timber up so much that it forces air bubbles out.

MIK

Simply wipe with thinners, will remove blush

Howdy,

Good point Al, It would be good to double check to see if it is on the surface before getting excited about sanding off the finish.

Sounds like classic moisture problems though.

Water is the solvent for the amine blush/bloom/wax, so that makes it nice and cheap. Some say that a little bit of cloudy ammonia in the water helps, but the newer version of the WEST system book says that is not necessary.

The nice thing about water is that it is cheap - so you can use enough to wash it off the surface. With thinners there is a tendency to just go over it with one cloth (to save money) which may simply redistribute the bloom/blush/wax over the surface.
Best wishes
Michael