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Old 07-14-2010 | 11:27 PM
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Default RE: Has MonoKote formulation been changed?

very nice David. Thanks for your post and pics. That's how I remember it going around wing tips and stabs on my first Goldberg Sr Falcon 20-25+ years ago. Didn't get quite as good of a result on the recent rebuild(pg 3). As I said in one of my earlier posts it could be ( and probably is) more of a technique issue with me and less of a product issue. Might have rushed it Memories can be fickle...like me remembering that the MK seemed easier to use when I started out than it is now.

In pic #11 of the last batch it looks like you may have a bit of a "bubble" in the lower portion of the "test stab". If so, thats one of the things I was having trouble with...keeping it stuck down and not blistering here and there when applied to sheet stock or slabs of balsa. I've been able to chase most of them away using a needle to punture the MK and then work the air out. The problem then is the new ones that pop up somewhere else. I'm thinking the iron may be too hot sometimes.

Had an "opportunity" to work with the H9 stuff. Had a tear in the bottom of my H9 Sop. Camel wing that needed repair. The stuff shrinks like crazy, maybe too much, as it pulled away from the initial overlap about a 1/4 inch leaving me to have to clean the left-behind adhesive from the edges of the repair piece. Seems much heavier and somewhat duller than the MK. It's ok, still prefer MK colors and gloss though.