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Chapter 2
Preparation for Assembly
Professionals utilizing premium Ultracote covering carefully covered your model. Due to climate changes
during shipping, the models covering may have loosened and/or winkled. It’s a good habit to go over your
model with a covering iron to ensure all joints, seams, and edges are properly sealed.
Ultracote is a lower temperature film that seals and shrinks at lower temperatures. Make sure you set your iron
on a low temperature initially to get a feel for the correct temperature setting and adjust accordingly. Higher
temperatures will cause your covering to over shrink and distort. Also, use a sock over your iron to ensure a
scratch free finish.
Place an “
×
” to ensure task completion:
Go over you model as necessary with a covering iron to
insure all joints, seams, and corners are sealed properly.
Use your iron to ensure the areas where cutouts are
needed for your hardware are located and sealed down,
such as servos; tubes, and control horn mounting
locations.
Next, we’ll need to cut out the covering at the locations for hardware and final assembly. Make sure you use a
sharp hobby knife so your cuts will be clean and straight.
Start with the fuselage, Locate and cut out the servo and
stabilizer and wing tube locations.
Locate and cut the location for the anti-rotation pins
and mounting holes for the stabilizers and wings.
Locate and cut the two mounting bolt locations for the
canopy and the two pull-pull exits.
Locate and cut the servo mounting location for each
wing half.
