Jetdesign

My Feedback: (8)

I have had good experience with Ultracoat, can't say the same for Monokote. Ultracoat goes on fairly easily with not a ton of heat. A touch with the iron gets a tack, one rub along the edge gets a seam, and sweeping motion with the heat gun gets nice uniform shrinkage.

There are two things I particularly like about Ultracoat:
1) The 'light' version looks great and is super light and easy to work with. It also matches the standard weight fairly well.
2) With wrinkles, I find Ultracoat to be the easiest/quickest/cleanest to re-shrink. I have a tough time with Monokote wrinkles. Other stuff pulls away at the seams.

sensei

There was no internet back in those early days, so like others; I leaned to cover from the school of hard knocks. As MonoKote changed I found that I needed to change the way I applied it as well. Here are a couple of pics for view, the red Double Vision Biplane has a covered in Stits and painted fuselage, and covered in MonoKote wings and tail feathers, the checkered 300 has a painted cowling, canopy deck and wheel pants, everything else in MonoKote, and the same goes for the yellow and black 260. By the way as I stated earlier I purchase only the 25' rolls, in the picture that I am covering the yellow turtledeck, that represents a full 6' roll if purchased that way, so you can see why I use the big rolls to cover with, it take around 5 rolls with drop to cover the big ones.[]

Bob

hairy46

My Feedback: (1)

Very nice job on the covering Snaproll!

wickedpissa

My Feedback: (1)

What I have found with mono is that when trying to shrink it you have to heat it then let it cool then heat it a again. If you just hold the heat gun you will do nothing or burn a hole in it. But if you let it cool and hit it again it will shrink right up.

woodburner

All I use now is Ultracote/Oracover..... unless a customer wants otherwise.

ARUP

I never use plastic film except as a release agent for jigs, molds and such.

atron

New (from 5 years) Monokote is C.R.A.P.

Used to be the BEST covering but not anymore!

woodburner

Oddly enough, just this week I tried some inexpensive covering from Hobbyking (China) on my girlfriend's Dynaflite Butterfly. I must say I'm impressed..... light, good opacity, very pliable around curved surfaces and sticks and shrinks very well. And it's CHEAP.

maekju

Hobby King covering not bad. I covered this a little over two years ago and no problems.

woodburner

Looks fantastic, maekju! Did you apply the trim with the covering iron or some chemical like Monokote Trim Solvent?

maekju

Did it with the covering iron