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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: MonoKote/SuperMonoKote (was FliteKote<=>MonoKote?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.013217.16831@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:32:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.154054.4198@arizona.edu> frank@evax2.engr.arizona.edu writes:
- |In article <C0Ar19.JB3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- |(Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |>
- |>I believe Monokote was the original covering way back in time. I seem
- |>to recall someone telling me that the adhesive was pressure-sensitive,
- |>i.e. it was more like FasCal and not an iron-on.
- |
- |I remember trying out the original Monokote when it first came out back in
- |the mid-to-late sixties. Boy oh boy was I disappointed.
- |
- |It was somewhat pressure-sensitive, but it was indeed iron-on, and you
- |could use it directly over sheeted surfaces. However, what the ads and
- |modeling press tended to gloss over was you couldn't use it to cover an
- |open-framework unless you first used Silkspan or something. In other words,
- |the Monokote went on top of conventional covering.
- |
- |I found this out the hard way. This is one thing that peeved me about the
- |model press at the time -- presenting an overly-rosy picture of the
- |product. Only in the fine print -- if at all -- did it mention the
- |open-framework restriction.
-
- But as I remember, they sure made that little fact clear when
- Super Monokote came out! :-)
-
- Although I don't have any of the original Monokote any more (and I
- only used it on one, now long deceased airplane), it seems to me that
- it was very similar in feel to the modern Trim Monokote. Just like
- TM, I remember that if it folded so the adhesive side touched itself,
- you could just throw the peice away; you won't get it apart.
-
- The stuff really bit the big one.
-
- Dave Svoboda, Palatine, IL
-