Monokote help provided!

ronlock ronlock at comcast.net
Sun Mar 21 05:30:48 AKST 2004


My C21 Iron is about 10 years and 20 airplanes old.   It works better than any other iron Ive had.
IMHO clearly worth the extra cost.
later, Ron Lockhart
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: michael Medlin 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:19 AM
  Subject: Re: Monokote help provided!




      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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