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Old 05-11-2010 | 12:08 PM
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Default RE: Has MonoKote formulation been changed?


ORIGINAL: w8ye

There's two parts to Monokote.

There is the Mylar membrane Is the problem the shrinkage?

And then there is the Colored adhesive Is the problem the adhesion?
The last bad roll I got was white and the problem was not as much adhesion but shrinkage mostly. It suffered slightly from adhesion problems and I am thinking something happened in the manufacture process that was not completed or they got bad batch of material. It pretty much had no shrinkage at all. If you put it on and stretched it to the max and only used it on completely flat surfaces with very small areas you could use it, however it had a strange feeling to it, almost brittle like feel.

It was almost as if the material had somehow completely missed some process or was made out of a completely different type of mylar membrane. Honestly, I think notebook paper would shrink better than this did! I had a roll of orange that was amazing. You could even shrink it three or more times if needed! You could take it and run the hot air over it and watch it shrink then if you wanted it tighter you could do it again and that stuff would shrink like it was gonna pop like a balloon! I bet that stuff would shrink 25% or more. The white simply was garbage.