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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