Label Casting with Liquid Diamond

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Over the past couple of years, I have made approximately 250 "Salute the Troops" pens for veterans. I label cast them with in Liquid Diamond resin their name and service shown. I noticed at about a year old the label cast starts to get a light green cast to it. Any ideas what is causing the discoloration?
 
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Over the past couple of years, I have made approximately 250 "Salute the Troops" pens for veterans. I label cast them with in Liquid Diamond resin their name and service shown. I noticed at about a year old the label cast starts to get a light green cast to it. Any ideas what is causing the discoloration?
All resins yellow with time. Depends on the color of the background in how apparent it is.
 
All I can tell you is that Liquid Diamonds is an epoxy resin and from what I gather epoxy resins are notorious for yellowing as they age. In some varieties of epoxy the liquid hardener will even start to yellow while it is still in the bottle. I've heard causes all the way from oxidation, exposure to moisture/humidity, UV exposure, and inadequate mixing. I am pretty sure that HALS (Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers) are in Liquid Diamonds to help reduce the yellowing due to UV exposure.

Dave
 
Over the past couple of years, I have made approximately 250 "Salute the Troops" pens for veterans. I label cast them with in Liquid Diamond resin their name and service shown. I noticed at about a year old the label cast starts to get a light green cast to it. Any ideas what is causing the discoloration?
Can we see?
 
Thanks, I was afraid of that.
I started another thread and it basically was based on this one. It is true all resins eventually yellow to some extent over time. What the conditions are that create this happening is probably uncontrollable . Each resin and maybe each batch may react differently. But being I use alot of Liquid Diamonds and silmar41 I want to see for myself the yellowing effect over time. As I mentioned the difference with deep castings and what we do is the thinness of the final product. Why does it make such a difference in clarity at those thicknesses is puzzling. Now it has been proven here that certain papers,cloths and things that are dyed can have an effect on the resin used so my question would be to you can it be the labels causing the coloration or is it the resin and the refraction off the subject matter that is causing the color change. This is why I would like to set up my own little experiment and do a time lapse study once and for all for basically my own interest. Of course this could be a long test so results may not be obvious for a year or so. But have to start somewhere. Still would like to see your situation up close if you could take some photos. maybe of a newer pen and one that has aged as you say. Thanks.
 
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