mrbigg

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I smoked up two "hobby" style irons in a month, so I went and picked up a black and decker one at walmart. click on the link to see the pics.


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RCKen

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mrbigg,
As long as the iron can reach the temperatures needed by your covering (275° for monokote) the iron will work for you. The first covering job I did I used a travel iron to apply the covering. But you may find that this iron is rather large to do some of the delicate work needed for a good covering job. When I'm covering it seems that I use my small trim iron almost as much as I do the regular size iron. I do wonder though why you have "smoked" two iron in a month. I've been building models for 9 years now and have only had I iron that burned up in that time, and that was because I accidentally set it too high. What temperature have you been setting the iron at? A tool that I have found invaluable has been this pocket thermometer. It will show you that have the iron at the proper temperature for the covering you use. I have found that my covering jobs have gotten better since I started using it, because I always used to have my iron temps too high.

Hope this helps

Ken

mrbigg

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the iron set on "4.25" works perfectly for Monokote. I've only used a trim iron a couple of times. To me, they are about useless and a pain in the rear- less tools the better. If one iron can do it all the better. Check out all the corners on this piece in the pic. No trim iron was used.
My first iron was pretty old and the second was given to me and was pretty old to start with. I don't use a thermometer as I set my iron cold at first and then slowly increase the temp until it's set just right. Both of them irons just quit heating up.