Space X Falcon Build Part 3 Nose Cone Sticker

The wraps are very sticky. You'll only have one chance to get it right.

Knowing that, I decided to make the nose cone wrap a little less tacky.
I set the sticky side down on my pant leg and lifted it leaving some fibers on the adhesive backing.


Look close and you can see the fibers left behind on the underside of the nose cone wrap.

This diminishes the stickiness of the wrap and will allow it to be re-positioned.


The instructions are a little vague about how high up the nose cone side to place the wrap. When centered evenly around the nose cone, it's above the molded ridge.
To get it in the right position it took four re-positionings.
Without lessening the tackiness of the wrap (and four tries later) it never would have been straight.

The instructions say: "If needed, carefully reposition."
Yeah - good luck with that.

You can't always do this with a thinner wrap.
These wraps are thick enough and opaque. A thinner (more transparent) wrap might show the jean fibers.