Hi All
Removing old monokote/solarfilm/ultracoat colo(u)r from balsa is fairly
easy. Using a covering iron, iron some paper kitchen towel down on to
the mess and remove after a few seconds while still warm - the coloured
adhesive comes away easily with the tissue and can be discarded.
Thanks for all the ideas.
I pulled out the monokote iron and a dirty covering sock, and about 15
minutes later all the remaining covering was in little, burnt balls on
the floor. I just kept going back and forth over the covering on fairly
high heat; it would heat up, roll up, and fall off -
Title: flourescent monokote / ultracoat removal
OK, this was a mess... I'm uncovering a rudder, and the monokote is seperating from its color - eg, the clear layer comes off, but the color is stuck. It's almost impossible to get off with a blade, is there another technique?
My next step
all glue joints before recovering. Especially
if the part was built with CA (Acetone can dissolve CA)
Hope this helps
Maurice
- Original Message -
From: Douglas, Brent
To: Soaring
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: [RCSE] flourescent monokote / ultracoat removal
OK
Hey now,
For me the heat gun works best. Heat up the money-cote and peel it
back like you would masking tape. If it's ultra cote this'll work all by
it self, if it's mono on the other hand no matter what, you'll have to do
some sanding. For some odd reason monokote has the colour and
pulling it off. Might
give it a try, a lot less smelly and messy and safer than Acetone.
See Ya,
Pat McCleave
Wichita, KS
From: Erica and or Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/04/19 Tue PM 05:20:05 EDT
CC: Soaring soaring@airage.com
Subject: Re: [RCSE] flourescent monokote / ultracoat
doug:
It has been some time but if I remember right I solved this by doing the following.
Take a new piece of monokoat and place it over the color splotch left behind. Heat it with an iron until it sticks. Then pull it off. It will take the old color off with it. Do it to a small area at a time.
I spent a little bit of time giving my impressions of the process of getting
monokote off of built up balsa structures to Charlie Waller, who was wanting
to strip the brown metallic monokote off of his Oly II to recover in
transparent.
I thought everyone might be able to relate to parts of
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