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Old 06-30-2004 | 11:12 PM
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Default RE: MonoKote, problems taken care of?

JJboomer,
Have a look [link=http://www.monokote.com/accys/topr6020.html]here[/link] for the trim solvent.

I wanted to update everyone. My finger is almost entirely healed, but there's still a small ravine I guess you could say, where the cut once was. I took the bandage off over the weekend while in Maine on vacation, it was driving me nuts, and it was a good time for it anyway

I'll let the pictures do the talking...as I mentioned before, my attention to detail isn't quite right. The ailerons are going to stay yellow, as well as the elevator.
I finally got the hang of those stripes. I did use the windex trick, but I didn't let the tail stripes dry the 24 hrs. Instead, since they're at absolute max 2" wide (and that's beyond the tail edges, so they're probably 1.75" or so), I squeegeed out the windex and made sure they were on nice and flat, no bubbles or anything in between the two films. I think the solvent might work really well in this case, no ironing, no windex. Not sure though. Anyway, after I got it all flatened I just ironed very carfully. I didn't do this on the wing stripes, they're much wider and pass over open bays so ironing wouldn't work and the heat gun would've just made a mess on something like that. So here are there pics. I haven't finished the top fuse yet, as you can see...
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