If you want perfect glue lines, just mask off the edge near the spoke nipples with tape. You can spend all day on that if you want, to get it perfect. Apply the contact cement, let dry, and peel the making tape. Then apply the monokote. Should be near perfect.
The hardest part of the whole process is minizing wrinkles on the rim. Just takes some patience. Apply at 12,6,3,9 and the divide. You can use your heat gun to shrink between divisions to pull out the slack as you work around the rim. As noted, monokote is cheap... So, if you aren't happy you can retry your process until you are... Several times before you even get close to the cost of a cover. It's easy to work with, so worst case I'd guess it takes one extra roll to get the process perfect like you want.
The material shrinks a LOT. So, it will be drum tight and glass smooth when you are done. The dish is no big deal. It has no impact on covering either DS or NDS. No drama.
Your xc279 looks almost identical to an r460. Its actually 4mm deeper according to one drawing I found. So, seems fine.
The hardest part of the whole process is minizing wrinkles on the rim. Just takes some patience. Apply at 12,6,3,9 and the divide. You can use your heat gun to shrink between divisions to pull out the slack as you work around the rim. As noted, monokote is cheap... So, if you aren't happy you can retry your process until you are... Several times before you even get close to the cost of a cover. It's easy to work with, so worst case I'd guess it takes one extra roll to get the process perfect like you want.
The material shrinks a LOT. So, it will be drum tight and glass smooth when you are done. The dish is no big deal. It has no impact on covering either DS or NDS. No drama.
Your xc279 looks almost identical to an r460. Its actually 4mm deeper according to one drawing I found. So, seems fine.
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Tom_hampton: Mar 8, 19 19:50