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Old 03-03-2013 | 11:31 AM
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ameyam
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Default Refurbrishing an old airplane

I am refurbrishing an old Phoenix Topstar. Its atleast 6 years old and the Oracover monokote is starting to delaminate- the plastic is coming off while the color remains on the wood, then flakes off. So I want to strip the entire covering and redo. There is one issue. When I pull off the covering, the color and glue remains on, when I try to sand this, the glue gets activated and spoils the sand paper. Previously I tried to solve this by putting a news paper and ironing over the residue after removing the covering. This causes most of the stuff to come off but some still remains. How do I remove the monokote completely?

P.S. I cant get monokote solvent here, its inflammable

Ameyam