Bad news TriPacer fans. My wife went over the mountian to Wally World to pick up some knitting yarn. I asked her to get me some Rustoleum or Krylon primer. I have been told that both brands will work as a prime coat for the Rustoleum I was going to mix and spray. She comes home with 1 can of krylon and two cans of brand X primer. It was all they had. The brand X paint was acrilic enamal, so I figured I was ok. I had used a similar paint under Formula U and it worked ok. Well, to make a long story longer I have stripped all the cover off the fuselage and control surfaces. Somehow the primer reacted with the nitrate dope and made a mess of the whole thing. I thought I was ok with the Primer, I put it on in several light coats and let it dry for about 24 hours. It appears that the solvents in the spray paint worked on the dope. There were wrinkles in the fabric, small ones. and they would not shrink out. Anywhere the fabric touched the structure there were bumps that looked like thick brush marks. It looked like I covered the plane with a brown paper bag and white glue. SO, I will recover her and go to plan "B". I will be forced to use dope which was plan"A" in the first place. If anyone would like to see the recovering job let me know and I will try to take a lot more fotos this time. If you have seen enough covering jobs tell me now and I will forgo the training exercise.

PS. I know the thing did not look like this before I painted her.