As ones flying skills improve there is less damage to repair and some planes will last long enough to be in need of a new finish. I have found that when stripping old monokote from a wing it usually is under the fillets. This makes a mess of the fillets and the balsa causing a lot more work than it needs to be. I learned the hard way that using a strip of monokote around the edges and putting the fillets over the edge of the strip it becomes permanent to the plane. Any subsequent covering removal and replacement becomes a lot easier, if the plane lasts that long.
I need to be careful of the gaps where the flaps meet the inboard and outboard stationary flaps. To get the gaps as tight as possible I can only put one layer of covering in the gap ends on the flaps and stationary flaps. That should produce a nice close fitting gap that doesn't interfere with the movement of the flaps. (In my case it's more like a Henny Youngman joke"Take my gap, please")
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