Does anyone know how TowerKote (Tower hobbies covering) compairs to Monokote? It looks like the same material based on the picture I have seen. Anyone use it? What are the results? Etc...


Mark

Based on descriptions on Tower Website, Towercoat is probably Topflight Econocoat, not Monocoat. It is low temp covering and lighter weight than Monocoat. Not as strong as Monocoat and you need to be careful when applying heat as it will melt at the temperatures used to apply Monocoat.

George

Further. The adhesive is not fuel proof and the seams will lift easily if they get wet from exhaust or fuel spills. Ask me how I know! I will not use it again!

Paul

Thanks guys for the responses! I guess it was more of the price that lured me in then anything else. Based on your response Paul. I will stick with Monokote. It is no fun recovering a plane.

Mark

I used white econocote over an epoxied area at the firewall last year and it discolored to a brown. []

You may want to take a look at UltraCote. It is a LOW TEMP film covering that a lot of people prefer over MonoKote. Unlike Econokote/Towerkote, it is as strong as Monokote, the adhesive is fuel proof and it goes around corners/curves a lot easier than Monokote.

Somethings you should keep in mind when using any film covering (and a lot of fabric coverings also ).

First, what you need to do is apply the covering as tightly as possible initially so the initial shrinking can be done at the lowest possible heat for the product used.

Covering begins to shrink at a certain temperature. If (when ) you need to reshrink it you must use a higher temperature for it to shrink some more.

At some point the covering is not going to shrink any more.

IMHO, if you can start shrinking the covering at a lower temperature, you have more "room to play with" for those stubborn wrinkles and/or reshrinking later on.