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Title: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Steve Tomlinson on September 21, 2020, 02:27:56 PM

Old Combat / Sport/ Profile carrier guy here.
Guys, getting back into hobby.  In the old days (70's /80's), flew a lot of fast and slow combat (Flite streaks, voodoos, guillotines, spectrums and such) and after going thru the silk / dope routine, settled on FASCAL after Howard Rush exposed it to us in the NYC area.
My roll of this stuff is long gone, but since I am building again, keep thinking how great that material was and would be for sport type profile planes (busters, akromasters, twisters, F51's etc)   (just like the old days).
I have built last four planes using Monokote / Ultracote and unlike most of you, not into the super finishes.
ANYBODY KNOW IF FASCAL can still be purchased and what grade or type would I buy and applicable sources? HOWARD RUSH: YOU OUT THERE?

Title: Re: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Paul Wood on September 21, 2020, 03:50:49 PM

Steve, Do a search on here for Fascal. Lot of info to be found. Might be able to find what you're looking for.

Paul

Title: Re: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Steve Tomlinson on September 21, 2020, 04:24:12 PM

Thanks, Paul
I did  a search and lots of "mentions" of Fascal, but no details on sources, availability now, etc. etc.
Hopefully HOWARD RUSH will see this.

Title: Re: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Craig Beswick on September 21, 2020, 04:47:03 PM

A Google search revealed this.

https://www.printsolutions.ie/products/400-fascal-series.html

Craig

Title: Re: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Fredvon4 on September 22, 2020, 10:29:08 AM

Read this entire Thread from last June in the Combat section

https://stunthanger.com/smf/combat/fas-cal-covering-back-in-the-day/msg585020/#msg585020

Title: Re: Covering "FASCAL"
Post by: Lane Puckett on October 16, 2020, 09:21:26 PM

Steve,
Go to the book of faces  (autocorrect won't allow the actual name)
Get to the Miniature Aircraft Combat Assoc. page
In there I have all the information about getting fascal

Fascal was a product name.  Now it is currently made by Ritrama

I'll repost some information here

The stuff you remember as Fascal is the 1 mil

1 mil is part number 3-7146 (CLEAR POLYESTER, 1-mil OL with #22 clear adhesive and 1.2-mil polyester film liner
They use a 1.2 mil polyester film liner that the covering material is stuck to. Original fascal used a paper liner but the poly is lighter, cheaper, less bulk and is just a carrier so it gets tossed anyway.

To find a supplier just google Ritrama and that part number

Last roll of 1 mil I got from Midwest sign and screen printing
https://www.midwestsign.com/ritrama-3-7146-1-mil-polyester-overlaminate-27-x-750-gloss-clear


I have attached the cut sheet for the 1 mil film to this post