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Old 12-22-2004 | 01:12 AM
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From: Diana, TX
Default RE: First Covering job pics!

Hi nitrobasher: I don't know whether you used monocote or ultracote. I suspect monocote. Whatever, on the wrinkles, just take a pin, sharpest you can find and put a hole in each wrinkle. Aim your heat gun (when you get it) at the leading edge toward the wrinkle, hold for a second (just a second) and then fan the heat gun up and over the wing to just past the leading edge stripe, go back to the leading edge holding the gun perpendicular to the leading edge and go up and over again, keeping the heat gun about 1 to 1/1/2 inches from the covering. Pick up the gun about a inch, go back to leading edge and repeat. Use a fan motion. On the wrinkles on the top of the fuse behind the canopy, hold the gun about 1 1/2 inches above the wrinkles for a second or so and start waving the gun back and forth in a fanning motion (about two inch strokes) across the wrinkles. With a little practice, you will see that the wrinkles just begin to disappear.

You did a good job for the first one. Make no apologies. If you did not have a heat gun, you were handicapped.

Take care, and go have fun.