Monokote help provided!

[michael Medlin]

    I'm looking to buy a new iron to cover my Focus 2 and was looking at the coverite 21st century with the heat setting knob in the handle. It claims to hold heat within 3 degrees . Does anyone have any experience with this iron as far as quality and life expectancy? Thanks, Michael

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: EHaury at aol.com 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:43 AM
    Subject: Re: Monokote help provided!


    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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