Monokote help provided!

[ronlock at comcast.net]

The best iron I've used is the Century 21.   Seems like it holds temperature
accurately, and shoe shape is generally convenient.

Ron Lockhart


EHaury at aol.com
To:  discussion at nsrca.org  
Subject:  Re: Monokote help provided!  
Date:  Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:43:56 EST  
Some of the best MK work I've done has been with Terry's method. 
 
Unfortunately there's a variable that crept in, that being the equipment. My old faithful heatgun gave up the ghost! Three new guns and they're all junk. One howls like a banshee and all three deliver heat somewhere besides where they're aimed and each at different temps. I hate buying things that then need be rebuild / engineered for them to work properly! 
 
Irons aren't much better. As someone in this thread mentioned, most have uneven heat distribution over the sole. Some have a broad temp range for a given setting. The low cost types with the bi-metal control are usually the widest. I've had one with a solid state temp control fail high and flame a sock within seconds. All in all a wide variation in performance of the usual MK application equipment.
 
I suspect that those with good equipment have good experiences with MK and vice versa. If you're lucky enough to be the former, be wary if you replace equipment. 
 
Earl 
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