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Fish Eyes - Craters In Epoxy Paint Surfaces

Fish eyes are where a coating pulls away from the underlying surface creating 'holes' or craters in the topcoat that go down to the bottom coating. They sometimes happen under certain conditions with epoxies. Two part polys (LPU) coatings are especially sensitive to fish eyes. Almost always they are caused by surface contamination, oil or wax, even in minute amounts.

 

 

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craters and fisheyes in epoxy table top

Fish eyes are where a coating pulls away from the underlying surface creating 'holes' or craters in the topcoat that go down to the bottom coating. They sometimes happen under certain conditions with epoxies. Two part polys (LPU) coatings are especially sensitive to fish eyes.

 

They can be caused by surface contamination, oil or wax. They can also be caused by surface tension issues - - usually with simple raw/clear epoxy products (like when applying epoxy over a smooth/ slick surface like fresh glossy paint, along the edges of vinyl labels and decals etc

surface tension fisheyes on smooth surface

 

Our Bio Clear 8100 (tm) tabletop epoxy is a good example of surface tension fisheyes. If applied too thin over a very smooth surface it will fisheye. Some epoxies will fish eye more easily than others. Some of it is chemistry but also thickness and fillers come into play.


The bad news is that when epoxies fish eye due to surface contamination there is no simple fix. Solvent washing will often not fix the problem. Presumably the solvents just move the wax / contaminants around. More epoxy doesn't help, the fish eyes/craters just telegraph through the new layers of epoxy. I don't have an exact fix for fish eyes in epoxy. It happens rarely and never seems to happen when I intentionally try to product it. My best fix ideas are:

 

Watch the epoxy while it sets up and then ‘brush out’ the fisheye as it forms.

A possible easier solution (will it work?) is to spray the surface with clear spray paint and then apply be clear epoxy over it when the spray paint is still tacky. This provides some ‘friction’ to the surface and might prevent the dimples and fisheyes from forming.


A leading cause of oil surface contamination affecting epoxies has to do with oil based stains used on wood. It takes the 'oil' in the stains several weeks to dry or evaporate away so that it doesn't potently cause fisheyes in any epoxy coat applied on it. It has happened to me (using our Low V epoxy) and I have had others report it happening (using our marine epoxies, I think) but I have not been able to duplicate it when I wanted to test some possible ways to 'fix' the fisheyes.


 


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