"Marc J. Zeitlin" wrote in message
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Doug Palmer wrote:

..... Of those of you out there who
have had issues could you give an estimate of when the product was
purchased, and Who the vendor was. Just a thought...

2001/2002 from Aircraft Spruce.

Let me ask you a question. Since there are a bazillion different primers
out there, and the ONLY one that anyone has ever complained about in
public with respect to painting composite aircraft is Smooth Prime, even
if the failure rate is relatively low (let's say 5% as a talking point,
although I personally know 5-7 COZY builders who've had problems with it,
so in the COZY community the %age is probably closer to 10%-20%), why
would you want to use a product where the failure rate is 5% rather than
one where the failure rate is 0.01%?

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Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006

I agree wholeheartedly about using a reliable system, which would push me
away from SmoothPrime on future projects. I wish there was another system
that filled pinholes as effectively as SmoothPrime. Also, being waterborne
and roller applicable sure is nice.

We've seen failures in the RV community too. I wonder if some people are not
properly mixing the material, or are applying it during periods when the
temperature or humidity levels are having a negative impact on the
polymerization. (It does claim to polymerize, doesn't it?)

KB