removing epoxy

All,
Does anyone have a way to remove 30 min epoxy from monokote?
I fiberglassed the center of a damaged wing, which worked well.

Then I noticed that I had epoxy dribbles down the wing.


I was going to remove the monokote but I thought I'd ask here first before doing that.


Thanks!

I have had success using acetone to get epoxy fingerprints off a film covered wing (ultracoat I think)and I am sure that MEK will dissolve epoxy but may also dissolve the monocoat.

try using heat from your monokote gun. Heat softens epoxy and may allow you to get the drips off if you warm them then gently and carefully, flick them up with a #11 blade.

yea my experience fixing arfs says xacto and a steady hand can get the job done

Have you tried trim solvent? I (unintentionally) got some trim solvent on some sort of blob a while back, and the blob cleaned up with a little more trim solvent.

I think it was epoxy, not sure, and I never followed up with a real test. If that works (or if you know it doesn't), we'd probably all be interested either way.

Larry Fulwider

Thanks for the answers guys -

First I'll try Acetone and see how that goes

then heat and blade

then trim solvent (i'm guessing that's a top flite product?)

I"ll post results

plus I can always pull the covering off and re-apply the monocote

I've had this same problem, and what I found that works is just std. rubbing alcohol. Soak a piece of paper towel with the rubbing alcohol and let is set on it for 30 min or more and it will come right off. I use alcohol to clean out my epoxy mixing cups, if you let the alcohol sit for a couple of days in the cup, the epoxy softens up to almost nothing.


Leonard Rennick

This is a post I am going to follow with hopeful expectations because I was rather sloppy when I put a Nobler ARF together and got 30 minute epoxy on my fingers which transferred to the covering to me it has ruined the look of the model for obvious reasons,I did try using alchol to clean it of with no real luck so like I said I will be watching this post with alot of interest, I have put the model aside while I decide whether to recover the model or fly it like it is, recovering the model seems like a total waste of time so please also let me know of a good method of cleaning the epoxy from the covering
Richard
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