Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
Rick; it makes good sense to use only the iron recommended by Stits (Poly Fiber) for covering, if you're using the Poly Fiber process. Two reasons... one is accurate control of temperature, the other is even temperatures across the face of the iron. A third reason might be "enough power", to keep the iron at the right temperature while you're covering a large area.It's very important to use the exact temperatures spelled out in the manual. Besides, the iron they recommend only costs $30 or so. It happened that my wife uses one of the recommended irons and I was able to use hers for the large areas when I recovered my vertical stabilizer, then I bought one of the small irons from Wicks to use for corners and for heat-smoothing. It's been very valuable for the small repair patches I've had to do on 41CC as well. I calibrated it, made marks on the dial, and it works great.Both my wife's iron and the smaller one that I bought have the "ironstone" type non-stick coating on them so they don't get messed up with the covering materials.Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________