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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">I'm looking to buy a new iron to cover my
Focus 2 and was looking at the coverite 21st century with the heat setting
knob in the handle. It claims to hold heat within 3 degrees . Does anyone
have any experience with this iron as far as quality and life expectancy?
Thanks, Michael</DIV>
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<A title=EHaury@aol.com href="mailto:EHaury@aol.com">EHaury@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:43
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Monokote help
provided!</DIV>
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<DIV>Some of the best MK work I've done has been with Terry's method. </DIV>
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<DIV>Unfortunately there's a variable that crept in, that being the
equipment. My old faithful heatgun gave up the ghost! Three new guns and
they're all junk. One howls like a banshee and all three deliver heat
somewhere besides where they're aimed and each at different temps. I hate
buying things that then need be rebuild / engineered for them to work
properly! </DIV>
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<DIV>Irons aren't much better. As someone in this thread mentioned, most
have uneven heat distribution over the sole. Some have a broad temp range
for a given setting. The low cost types with the bi-metal control are
usually the widest. I've had one with a solid state temp control fail high
and flame a sock within seconds. All in all a wide variation in performance
of the usual MK application equipment.</DIV>
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<DIV>I suspect that those with good equipment have good experiences with MK
and vice versa. If you're lucky enough to be the former, be wary if you
replace equipment. </DIV>
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<DIV>Earl</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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