Handle the newly taped mono carefully so as not to wrinkle it as you roll it back up. Make sure you get the brown paper flat as possible on a large table with masking tape. My roll is exactly 27 3/4' wide so its a perfect fit for Monkotes 25 1/2 width.Īll you have to do is tape down the Monokote over the thick paper the full length of the sides of the mono. I have no idea what its called but its like the brown paper bag type of material but much thicker. You can buy this cheap stuff at Home Depot. So in a nutshell you need a better substrate. To get even a hopefully good cut you'll need to sit there and pull the Monokote through the cutter as it cuts and even at that theres a good chance it'll screw up. The flimsy backing on Monokote won't allow you to cut big pieces because of the small differences in tracking on each pinch roller. I have a solution to both of those problems. Biggest problem is cutting large pieces and the second problem is the tracking marks that the pinch rollers leave. Monokote and vinyl cutters don't exactly sing together. Or any cutter for that matter that can handle the width of Monokote. Got a great tip for you guys that have this cutter. My son and I are going in together and it will be our Christmas this year You can get blades off of EBay for 10 bucks for three last time I checked. Never again have to use TEMPLATES! Use your computer.īTW, I've done three 40%+ planes on the original blade cutting Ultra,Mono, and lots of vinyl. Get SignBlazer to make the actual link to the R Series (use the Redsail drivers). Learn Inkscape (you only need to learn about 1% of its capabilites).

Since I have to put a contrasting color over the white I'll either windex, or I think the way I'll go is cut away the white mono underneath.

Once this is done I have the perfect planform of the turtle deck. It took me two tries to get where it is, but I still need to nudge some nodes to get the fin perfect. In these couple of photos you can see how the paper fits perfectly over the turtle deck wrapping itself around the vertical fin. It comes with a plotting pen so you can draw out your designs before actually committing your expensive covering (Ultra or Mono). The challenge begins with the turtle deck. The fuse bottom and sides have been covered in base coat white in Monokote. It's a nice big fat 126' Carden 260 that has now moved to the covering stage. For any of you guys sitting on the fence I'd like you to see my latest project.

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