Monokote help provided!

[Terry Terrenoire]

I have been using one since they came out, about 10-12 years ago. I did
replace the shoe once, and I am thinking of doing it again. I like the
iron so much I bought a second just to have on hand in case the first
craps out. I do a lot of covering, 8-10 planes a year, so my gun and iron
get a lot of Hot time. I love it! This iron holds it's temp perfectly,
and the degree settings on the handle are fairly accurate. I have checked
mine with a thermal detector.

Terry T.


On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:19:31 -0500 " michael   Medlin" <mmedlin at bbnp.com>
writes:


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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