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Old 05-28-2006 | 11:57 PM
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Default RE: Flite Metal... Help!!!

While we strive to provide basic application instructions to assure proper adhesion and finishing at the minimum level,
it is always a desire to provide the lowest level of instruction to prevent confusion. As you indicated in a previous post,
you were pleased with your application of our product after you reduced the amount of Windex you applied to the
surface of the model prior application.

Thanks to Richard McFarland and several other customers I am composing an application CD/DVD (format has yet to be
decided upon) which will include photo/video examples of specific shapes and forms commonly found on the surface of a
model airframe. While this can not cover very possibility, it will illustrate the typical application and how to control stretch.

As has been described in our application instructions and online here and elsewhere within the web...stretch is the specific
attribute of Flite-Metal which differentiates it from construction grade adhesive backed aluminum foils. Flite-Metal can
stretch 25% and greater than its area mass. This is to say a 4" x 4" inch piece is capable of stretching to an area
approximately 5"x 5". Reserving this stretch, or not invoking stretch until stretch is required, is the application process
you should strive to achieve.

Nothing about applying and finishing our product is an exact science. The majority of the finishes you have seen on our
web site and magazines covering domestic and international scale competition are achieved by customers whom have
experimented with the application and finishing of Flite-Metal to achieve replication of an actual airframe surfacee.