RE: First Covering job pics!
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Well now that you've got that 1st covering job out of the way.....
Be sure and get someone to look the plane over for you real good. Make sure you havent got any warps in your wings and to make sure everything is straight and true. Doesnt really matter what it looks like if its well balanced and properly assembled it should fly ok. And you can always go back years from now and admire that 1st covering job...
You can get those wrinkles out with your iron too. I dont even use a heat gun, all I use is an iron and I have no wrinkles in any of my covering jobs. Just ease the heat up a little at a time and you will see the wrinkle get better when you start getting hot enough. When you get hot enough to see a small change, just keep easing the heat up and carefully making passes over the wrinkle and when you get hot enough the wrinkle will suddenly go away as you make a nice smooth slow pass over it. Just start too cool and work up, if you get too hot the covering will melt through instantly. Its a fine line and once you get hot enough to remove those tough wrinkles you will melt through if you sit in one place too long.
Next time try to lay your covering on as smooth as possible and only use heat just warm enough to melt the glue and make it stick but not shrink. You dont want to distort the covering until it is almost completly down and then stretch it evenly using heat only. I try to wrok from the middle of the wing surface in all directions and just tack it down as tightly as possible without stretching it and try not to stick it down too hard on the spars. Then crank the heat up a little at a time and go over and over and over, gradually easing the heat up. I try not to stick anything except the leading and trailing edges down tight until I feel pretty sure that the covering isnt going to have any twists on it.
The only place you should have to pull and stretch monokote type covering is on compound curves like a wingtip or around the cowl area.