RCU Forums - View Single Post - Covering advice
Thread: Covering advice
View Single Post
Old 01-23-2002 | 05:47 PM
  #5  
Gastronom-RCU
Banned
My Feedback: (5)
 
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 592
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
From: gone
Default Covering advice

Originally posted by Mendes


I'm not a big fan of prejoining pieces and then applying them as a whole sheet to the wing. I tried this with Ultracote and got a little too carried away with the heat gun...result: one seam pulled apart so I stripped the wing and recovered.

Rich.
I understand how you feel but I have had very good results from the prejoined method. You have to at least overlap the edges (dark on top) by 1/4 inche then use a very hot setting on the mirror. You want it so hot that it actually sticks to the mirrored surface. Seems won't come loose if you have a good bond on the mirror.
Just my $0.02 worth