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Old July 20th 08, 04:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default Monokote trim patches for covering holes - not recommended

On Jul 18, 1:22*pm, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
A while back I posted that I had used Monokote trim to cover some of
the larger holes in my Speed Astir fuselage. *They did a nice neat job
of covering the holes, but here's the follow-up. *I removed one a
couple weeks ago that had been in place for a couple months. *The
mylar pulled off cleanly, but left the adhesive behind, and boy howdy
was that stuff difficult to remove! *Perhaps with the RIGHT solvent,
it wouldn't be a pain, but the 3M General Adhesive Cleaner doesn't do
much but make it gooey. *If anybody knows what sort of solvent would
work better on the Monokote trim adhesive, please chime in, cause I'm
sure the 'racing checker' patches made my glider faster!



Oh and I forgot. "Goo Gone" citrus based cleaner will probably knock
this straight off. Maybe followed by a clean wipe of 3M cleaner,
acetone or toluene, etc. I've used Goo Gone to take off residue of
misapplied stripes similar to Monokote.

Darryl