Top-Flite/Tower Hobbies needs to do the following:

1) Make an announcement that "Monokote is defective and we have decided to pull it off the market until it is fixed"
2) Send their chemists to the lab and fix the product
3) Send out a new memo that Monokote is fixed and offer $5 rolls of white Monokote to prove it
4) Offer a money back guarantee on the product

I don't think they'll do it. Let's face it, no one is building kits anymore. The primary market for Monokote is now ARF repairs and those few kit builders left. I firmly believe that the Top-Flite ARFs use a totally different version of Monokote than we use. Maybe it has lead in it, maybe it has pixie-dust; who knows. There's absolutely no way some Chinese kid would but up with the crap that Tower sells us. A possible theory is that Top-Flite changed Monokote to better allow for mass production LIKE sending wrinkled-***** "rough" covered ARF airframes through some sort of cremation furnace for final shrinkage.

Let's face it, it's really time to forget about Top-Flite Monokote just as we have forgotten about Carl Goldberg, Midwest, ACE RC, Lanier (not too sad about that one), Enya in the USA, Pilot Models, Royal, Pica, and IkonNWest that have long since gone out of business. I think we've been talking about this Monokote issue for years and it's obvious that nothing is going to be done to fix it!

I challenge someone that has a "junker" sort of plane to purchase 1 roll of 21st Century, 1 roll of Toughlon, 1 roll of Ultracote and 1 roll of Monokote white to see how they all compare.

Mike