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7 years 6 months ago #12704 by DavidTappin
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Mike suggested

Use a cigarette lighter

Shame on you Mike, call yourself a dedicated electrophile, fancy proposing the use of petrol to start the fire.

Shouldn't you just attach a well charged LiPo cell to the oily area and then touch the +ve and -ve wires together to achieve the desired result?

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7 years 6 months ago #12705 by Phil Ford
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MikeSeale wrote: Use a cigarette lighter to get the oil to ignition point. After the fire dies down replace with a model designed for electric power.


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7 years 6 months ago #12706 by 4Pedalsfly
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Chris - A bit more info for you.
Deluxe Materials sell a product called "COVER GRIP " it's a liquid which when dry is activated with
a warm iron & they claim it will allow covering materials to adhere to oil affected areas.
Worth a go & a lot cheaper than a recover job.
Website deluxe materials.com
Regards
Colin
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7 years 6 months ago #12707 by JRI
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Use bicarbonate of soda (the cooking stuff), it soaks up oil and you simply scrape it of when it goes cakey and put on another layer. Totally worked for my old oil soaked glow models and should work for petrol residues too...
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7 years 6 months ago #12733 by Chris73
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Needless to say, but I didnt go with Mike's suggestion

I used a hot iron and paper towel, then lightly sanded the area and sealed with thinned epoxy, seems to have worked ok
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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #12735 by AlanF
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Nicely done Chris.

Did you seal down the edges of the film after covering, if so what did you use? I've used a Solar Film product called Clearcoat on my glow models in the past which has worked ok but haven't used anything on the Gas models.

Edit:
That's not true I've used it on my little Extra - it works ok !
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