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Hi there, I've been building for years and have never used trim solvent, what does it acually do?

RE: Trim Solvent

It is great for cleaning up the color bleeds, but it designed to apply your trim onto your covered wing or fuselage. I only use it to clean up with or to remove glue from any covering. Good Luck, Dave

RE: Trim Solvent

I use trim solovent on a regular basis.It basicaly works to "glue" the covering onto another piece of covering, rather than trying to use heat to adhear it.It helps to create a bubble free finish.

For example, if you wanted to lay a stripe on a wing, like a star burst design, if you were to simple lay the stripe on the wing and heat it down, more than likely you will end up with air pockets trapped between 2 layers of covering. The other problem with heat, is it shrinks the covering, thus distorting your stripe.

Now, if you did that same stripe with trim solovent, the solovent would allow you to move it around a small amount, as well as push the air bubbles out.Lay the stripe down, and working from the middle out towards the edges, with a rag, gently push the air bubbles out. When ur done, should be no air bubbles.

Where the trim solovent shines, is doing pin stripeing. The trim solovent holds the pin stripe down much better than just heat alone.

Also, if you want to make decals useing covering. The trim solovent is a must, as its very difficult to use heat on small pieces.

If you are not sure about how it works, my sugestion is to look around for some videos on useing it. You would be amazed, once you learn how to use it, what the trim solovent allows you to create. The attached pic is a decal I made for my frenzy, useing layers of covering and trim solovent.

RE: Trim Solvent

I use it to clean up covering irons and to go over a newly covered model to seal the edges and clean up any color that bleeds thru.
Trim Solvent is expensive.
The best way to apply it is to keep some in a old CA Accelerator spray bottle. That way you can easily control the amount that you need. This works way good.
Mark the outside of the bottle so you'll know which is which. Don't ask how I learned this! (Trim Solvent doesn't do much to kick off a CA glue joint.)

RE: Trim Solvent

And it only works on MonoKote and brands similar to MonoKote

It does NOT work on Ultracote.

RE: Trim Solvent

What works with Ultracote?

RE: Trim Solvent

Quote:

ORIGINAL: juice90

I use trim solovent on a regular basis.It basicaly works to ''glue'' the covering onto another piece of covering, rather than trying to use heat to adhear it.It helps to create a bubble free finish.

For example, if you wanted to lay a stripe on a wing, like a star burst design, if you were to simple lay the stripe on the wing and heat it down, more than likely you will end up with air pockets trapped between 2 layers of covering. The other problem with heat, is it shrinks the covering, thus distorting your stripe.

Now, if you did that same stripe with trim solovent, the solovent would allow you to move it around a small amount, as well as push the air bubbles out.Lay the stripe down, and working from the middle out towards the edges, with a rag, gently push the air bubbles out. When ur done, should be no air bubbles.

Where the trim solovent shines, is doing pin stripeing. The trim solovent holds the pin stripe down much better than just heat alone.

Also, if you want to make decals useing covering. The trim solovent is a must, as its very difficult to use heat on small pieces.

If you are not sure about how it works, my sugestion is to look around for some videos on useing it. You would be amazed, once you learn how to use it, what the trim solovent allows you to create. The attached pic is a decal I made for my frenzy, useing layers of covering and trim solovent.

RE: Trim Solvent

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ORIGINAL: huck1199

What works with Ultracote?

Nothing that i have found