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    Quote Originally Posted by Betty Hiner View Post
    The finish looks wonderful. Any place you get it from? Anything special to be careful of? <how you like the way I'm finishing sentences today,eh?> Is it subject to flame up? <I can't be around sharp things, or flammable things> What about smell? Can it be applied in confined areas, with out a respirator? <goofy enough without additional stimulus>

    Personally, I like the purple rod!!
    Betty, go to http://www.lamarfishing.com/ is a list of places to buy it, I bought mine from donart. As for anything to be careful of, the black rod was my first ever rod, it was a TFO 8 weight TICr, I'm sure I did many things wrong but it still turned out pretty well.

    During my research into rod building I did a huge amount of reading in many different places, this stuff always came up as great. The few times I've read about problems were always contamination. Problems that would appear with any finish, one fellow narrowed it down to the cups he used to mix in (Silicon contamination), another was the syringes he measured with.

    Speaking of measuring, I went with the Stainless measuring spoons, I've done as small as .5 CC (roughly) with no problems, it is also supposed to be one of the most forgiving finishes around for mix quantity, the maker claims about 10% margin of error, most users agree with this as being conservative.

    LOL, I can guarantee it isn't flammable, I used the open flame of an alcohol burner to level my last wrap because my speed was a bit slow and i was near the end of the pot life on it. Didn't burn down the house And as for smell, I did mine on my folding table in the front room, no smell at all, zero, only thing I could smell was my denatured alcohol. and as far as I could tell there are no noxious vapors, no light headed etc...


    HideHunter, If this is the Plain Threadmaster, it is a High-Build and much thicker then the lite. It still sounds like you may have something worth talking to the fellow who makes it about. Make sure you go to the fellow that makes this stuff (Andy Lamar) think you can get contact info from his site. From what I've read he is very willing to discuss problems and help get them corrected. Give him a call, I suspect there is definitely something amiss. If nothing else give the TM Lite a shot. I've also seen comments that if you add a few drops of denatured alcohol to the TM you basically have lite, so you may want to try thinning it.

    I applied my finish at about 72 degrees (about the norm temp for my house) no problems other then reaching the end of the pot life on my last guide wrap, when you consider this was 10 dual foot guides done its not bad... I allowed 24 hours between coat 1 and coat 2, turned it for about an hour, and about 3 days for final setup. My understanding is the Plain TM has much faster "set" times.

    I can vouch for the clarity and leveling properties, like I said, i was careful, did some research, but I know for a fact I did many things incorrectly and still ended up with ok results. I think most of this discussion is pertinent to the OP's message but sorry if any of this is perceived as Hi-Jacking :O Thanks for the kind words all...
    Last edited by RDL; 03-21-2008 at 06:21 PM.

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