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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 “
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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
locations for each wing half.