Some coverings come off easily with heat - MonoKote is not one of those.

It will be a slow process, but just keep at it.

As for recovering, here is an article I wrote a while back:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...?article_id=67

And here are some videos that I did later:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...article_id=726

But read the article first. It gives a lot of basics that are not mentioned in the videos