RUST DESTROYER®
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
Pro-Coat Systems
Division of SEALPRO, INC.
300 Bedford Street, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101, 603 669-8786
June 3, 1988
Dear Tom,
Pro-Coat Systems is an industrial applicator
of Epoxy, 100% urethane and rust preventative coatings and
linings.
We have been using RUST
DESTROYER® Paint Primer for the
past three years and have found many advantages as compared
to using other products with similar claims.
As applicators we have found the following advantages by
using RUST DESTROYER®;
non-toxic, no sandblasting required, dust remove loose scale;
apply directly over rust; we have used many different types
of top coat paints over RUST
DESTROYER® and have also applied
it over previously painted surfaces with excellent results.
Using RUST DESTROYER®
versus sandblasting, metal cleaning and getting rid of the
sandblasted material has been a tremendous cost savings to
our customers.
We used RUST DESTROYER®
on the interior of a steel chimney support for FMC Corp. in
Rockport, Maine which was previously epoxy coated. We were
unable to completely remove the old epoxy but thanks to the
superior adhesion of this product we were able to apply it
and re-coat with Pratt & Lambert's Palgaro epoxy coating.
Without RUST DESTROYER®
this job could not have been done successfully.
We used RUST
DESTROYER® to coat a newly constructed
steel waste boiler which reaches temperatures to 600 degrees
F, which was exposed to the elements at the Nepera Co. in
Newburg, NY With the high heat temperature (800 degrees F)
of RUST DESTROYER®
we were able to top coat with a high temperature paint with
excellent results.
It would be too lengthy to mention all
the top coats we have used with RUST
DESTROYER® satisfactory results but we can assure you that your
product is the best we have ever used and we will continue
to use it.
Please feel free to use our name for any
recommendation and we would accept telephone calls from anyone
interested.
Very truly yours,
Hank Croteau, President
ASI
Anger Sales, Inc., Packaging Specialties
4622 Lower Beckleysville Road, Hampstead, MD. 21074 301-374
- 6475
December 4,1988
Dear Tom,
The purpose of this letter is to bring to your
attention an application of RUST
DESTROYER® that may be new to you.
The M. and M. Mars Co., Eizebethtown, Pa. has
a potable water tank in one of their production areas.
When it became necessary, about a year ago,
to reline the interior of this tank they had a problem. How
to clean the interior, down to white metal, without sand blasting,
which was prohibited in this area.
We solved the problem by high pressure water
blasting the loose rust and scale off and painting over the
remaining rust with RUST DESTROYER®. The RUST
DESTROYER®
was top coated with two coats, total & to 10 mils DFT,
Hi Build Polyamide Cured Epoxy approved for use in potable
water systems by the USDA.
RUST DESTROYER®'s
terrific adhesion and rust converting properties can not be
duplicated and are invaluable in situations as described.
Sincerely,
G.F. Anger, Jr.
Commercial-Industrial Adhesives-Technical Service-Adhesive
Equipment
Cole Marketing Corporation
100 Hemlock Road #4-3, Branford, Connecticut
06405 (203) 481-3645
January 30, 1988
Dear Tom,
With the New Year just getting started we
wish to make a few observations concerning your RUST
DESTROYER® Primer Paint.
We believe that we were one of the first,
if not the first, industrial/commercial distributor of RUST
DESTROYER®. It has now been three
years since we started selling the product. You may recall
we had some reservations about it.
Since Cole Marketing is mostly involved with
instruments and devices having to do with bearings and pumps,
etc. we felt that the product was somewhat out of our line.
But, since we were calling on Maintenance Engineers and Supervisors
it deserved a "shot".
Well after learning about the product we commenced
selling it with our first drive towards the Municipal Waste
Water Plants in Connecticut. Needless to say they are what
is considered a very hostile atmosphere. It started selling
because we put effort into explaining and telling people what
the product would do and we assured them that we would stand
behind it. The first year was a trail for most of them, but,
they all reordered on the second and third painting seasons.
The industrial concerns were handled with
the same approach. We overcame many obstacles with them. These
included trying a new product ... which you must remember
they had to order and wait a short period for delivery. They
also had to purchase in specific quantities due to the packaging..
and most of these companies were used to telephoning the local
hardware store for a "primer". Well we won them
over and they became second and third buyers.
We think one of the best indications of this
type of situation was Northeast Utilities. They are a major
utility in Connecticut with numerous fossil fuel and nuclear
facilities. We obtained a list of their service centers and
went after them. Out of about twenty seven stations about
eighteen became users. Some of the production facilities used
it on their in-house maintenance projects.
When it came to the Connecticut Department
of Transportation the acceptance took along time. It was sampled
and tested by them in a "static" situation the first
year. It went well. The second year it was tested on a salt
spreader which traveled the State all last winter 1986/1987).
It came through the winter with flying colors. It has now
been accepted by the DOT for use on salt spreaders, snow plows,
etc. we are still pushing with the bridge departments. These
departments take a long time to test but, after approval we
look forward to substantial business. This is the same approach
taken with Amtrak which agreed to try it this past fall and
will give us a report in the spring/summer of 1988.
Bridges have been painted with RUST DESTROYER®. As a constant user, by all departments, the City of
Bridgeport specified RUST
DESTROYER® be used
on a bridge painting contract that went to a local contractor.
They purchased (almost five hundred gallons) and the bridge,
to our knowledge, has been completed by the painting contractor.
The City has used it on all maintenance projects for three
years now and even did a bandstand with it.
To give you some further idea of where RUST DESTROYER® has been used. We have developed approximately one-half
of the waste water plants in the State. We have five hospitals
and over one hundred industrial accounts plus twenty municipal
highway departments and twenty two town public works departments.
In looking at these results you must remember
that Cole Marketing is a small firm with limited sales people.
We feel that these results have proved that
RUST DESTROYER® is the product it has been claimed to be.
We realize that many more gallons are sold
through word of mouth referrals and we never hear about them
... the product is purchased locally on the retail level by
the end user.
One of the important things to bring up is
the end results. It may surprise you but we have not had ONE
substantiated claim of any problem with the product. We have
not had one occasion to file any claims with you, the manufacture.
The one complaint we had was a reported failure of a tank
top at a water pollution plant. We examined the situation
and sent a sample to you for testing. Before you had a chance
to start the supervisor of the plant telephoned us to apologize
that it was not our product on the tank top. Needless to say
the other product was stripped off and replaced with RUST DESTROYER®. This was one
and a half years ago and the customer has repeatedly reordered
for other applications.
We think that it is amazing that a product
of this type, over this length of time, would not present
some type of a problem. But, no there have not been any. We
have it being used in many, many different applications with
out any difficulty. Friends have used it on boat engine headers,
boat trailers, etc. and tell us how wonderful it is.
Everyone always mentions the ease of application
after use.
So for a company that has been selling RUST DESTROYER® for this many years we want to commend your presentation
of an excellent product and we want to thank you for making
our life a lot easier.
I am sure that the use will spread and spread
and it will be come a nationally successful product that may
be sold with confidence by anyone.
I am sorry that this letter is so long but,
we felt this had to be stated in its entirety.
Please feel free to use our name for any recommendation
and we would except telephone calls from anyone interested.
Sincerely,
Richard C. Gray, Cole Marketing Corp.
Avtech Construction & Engineering Corp
Advanced Technology in Construction
459 Ridge Road, Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071 (201) 933-0092
May 23, 1984
Dear Mr. Heiss:
This is to let you know of the excellent
results we have had using your RUST
DESTROYER® Primer
Paint.
We used it on steel sections in January
1983. It was applied without preparing the steel with sand
blasting or wire brushing. The steel was then finish coated
with a polyurethane enamel, with no compatibility problems.
As of the present date there have been no
corrosion problems or break through at all.
Thank you for your assistance.
Very truly yours,
Fred J. Nazare, P.E., President
Avtech Construction & Engineering Corp
P. S. Machine Co., Inc.
1505 John Fitch Blvd., South Windsor, Conn. 06074 Tel. (203)
528-9487
June 21, 1984
Dear Mr. Heiss;
I have used your product, the R K 1321 RUST
DESTROYER® Primer
on rusty and partially rusty surfaces in July 1982.
Up to date none of the treated surfaces show
any evidence of corrosion.
I found the product to be satisfactory.
Sincerely,
Pal Szabo, P.S. Machine Co., Inc.
Ferrara Brothers
Building Materials Corporation
120-05 31st Avenue, Flushing, New York 11354 212-939-3030
May 24, 1984
Dear Mr. Heiss
We have been using Advanced Protective Products
Rust Converter Primer for over a year, which we apply directly
over the surface without the need for sandblasting and/or
wire brushing.
We also applied this product on our concrete
mixers, as a one coat system, top coated it with DU PONTS
IMRON & found it to be compatible, as well as an excellent
hold out for the top coat.
Up to date, there is no rust breakthrough,
nor is there any cracking on the top coat.
Very truly yours,
Leonard Ferrara, Ferrara Bros. Bldg. Matls..
Corp.
Complete Line of Truck, Crawler, Hydraulic and Tower Cranes
Construction Equipment / Rentals * Service * Sales
Office and Yard: 53-20 44th Street, Maspeth, New York 1 1378
Telephone: (212)784-1778
August 16, 1984
Dear Mr. Heiss:
We are writing concerning the products being
used by our company in the repainting and maintenance of our
crane fleet:
Red Enamel #554 RUST
DESTROYER® RK 1321
1 component Clear coating -- 5856
2. Component Clear Polyurethan -- MD 865
We are extremely pleased with the durability
of your product. The rust protection treatment has proven
to be effective.
Thanks for your assistance.
Very truly yours,
Joseph Weiss, Equipment Superintendent Cranes,
Inc.
Solid Waste Division
Route 46 West, Lodi, New Jersey 07644 Phone (201) 473.7622
June 26, 1984
Dear Tom,
I'd like to thank you for introducing to
us your RUST DESTROYER® which we have been using for over two years on our
trucks and containers, which are heavily rusted.
Since we are using your product we don't
have to do the surface preparations as before, such as sandblasting,
wire brushing, etc. but can prime directly.
We are very satisfied with the quality
and performance of your RUST DESTROYER®, which lives up to its name, as well as the savings
both time and money-wise by eliminating the need of the surface
preparation.
We have found your product to be compatible
to our top coats and there is no rust breaking through during
the past two years.
Very truly yours,
Patrick Stamato, Vice-President of Operations
Frank Stamato & Co.
Division of Track
370 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
September 15, 1992
Dear Mr. Heiss:
The New York City Transit Authority's Division
of Track intends to use the Advanced Protective Product'sRUST
DESTROYER® product in aerosol containers
for priming steel hand rail joints on elevated structures.
Please forward a Material Safety Data Sheet for this product
and a certificate of compliance to New York State Volatile
Organic Compound (VOC) regulations.
The RUST DESTROYER®
product is used by the Division of Infrastructures for the
protection of structural steel by brush and/or roller application.
Reports from user personnel indicate excellent product performance
to date.
Sincerely yours,
Herbert Klaus, P.E., Engineering Officer
Corporate & Industrial Plant Maintenance Contractors -
Consultants
155 Franklin Tpke, Waldwick, New Jersey 07463 - (201) 445-6100
- Fax (201) 652-6394
November 17, 1992
Dear Mr. Heiss:
We are pleased to send you a list of updated
projects in which we have used RUST
DESTROYER® and RUST KNOCK OUT®.
We have, over a period of eight years, enjoyed continued success
with the RUST DESTROYER® and look forward to the same results with the RUST KNOCK OUT®.
We have used RUST
DESTROYER® on the following projects:
RUST
DESTROYER® has been used on
these projects:
We have used both products in these projects
and to date have not had any problems what so ever. If there
is any way we can help you please let us know.
Respectfully,
J.M. Groome, Jr., J.M. Groome, Inc., Corporate
Service Group
12138 Dividing Oaks Tr. W. Jacksonville,
Florida 32223 (904) :262-6820
November l3, 1989
TO: Mr. Tom Heiss
RUST DESTROYER®
APPLICATION AT LAMBS YACHT - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
On November 1O, 1969, a telephone interview
was conducted with Mr. Frank Surrace of Lamb's Yacht, Jacksonville,
Florida. The discussion centered around their dry boat storage
facility and its construction.
The dry boat storage facility at Lamb's
Yacht is the largest one ever constructed in the world utilizing
a crane .to move yachts up-to 44 f feet in length into and
out or storage. The only other facility similar in design,
but smaller, is located Hong Kong, China. The ease and precision
in handling which the crane provides, is in keeping with the
reputation that Lamb's Yacht has maintained for its products
that are custom designed and built.
As part of their concern for quality and
performance, the people at Lamb's Yacht chose RUST
DESTROYER®, as the metal paint
primer to coat all of the structural steel in their new dry
boat storage facility. The ease of application, the compatibility
in virtually any paint combination and the superior performance
specifications, were key factors in the decision to use RUST
DESTROYER®.
Floating the steel in by barge and using
their shipyard crane to handle the steel, enabled Lamb's Yacht
to utilize their own personnel to apply the painting system,
consisting of RUST DESTROYER®
and a high quality polyurethane industrial top coat. These
factors allowed Lamb's Yacht to maintain the high quality
control standards that they require.
The construction of the facility was begun
in the winter of 1988 and the facility has now been in operation
for several months. Lamb's Yacht is extremely pleased with
the performance of the facility and its components, including
RUST DESTROYER®.
Lamb's Yacht has continued to use RUST DESTROYER® in other equipment applications throughout their manufacturing
facility.
Restoration of Antique Vehicle Components
365 Stone Schoolhouse Rd., Bloomingburg, NY 12721 (914) 733
4413
November 20, 1989
Gentlemen;
As a restorer of antique vehicle components,
we have been using Rust-Destroyer for the past seven years
with great success. Bodies, frames, running gear, all have
been protected with Rust-Destroyer and with no worries about
long term projects re-rusting before finish painting and final
assembly.
Even parts that are sandblasted and have
deep pits are coated with Rust-Destroyer to prevent comebacks.
New patch panels are painted on both sides with R-D, welded
in place and welds repainted.
Best of all, we find that, with proper
drying time, RUST DESTROYER® is compatible with automotive refinishing products.
Thank you R-D, for making our work easier in the rusty Northeast
area.
Sincerely,
Wallace Hoag
P.S. We also sell Rust-Destroyer at automotive
flea markets, including Hershey, PA, and find that our best
customers are repeaters.
Executive Offices, 175 East Old Country Road,
Hicksville, New York 11801 (516) 391- 6120
File No ME-93-0439
May 6, 1993
Dear Mr. Heiss:
Please be advised that Advanced Protective
Products Inc. has been added to Long Island Lighting Company's
list of approved suppliers. You will receive future invitations
for requirements falling within your scope of supplies as
the needs develop.
Very truly yours,
C. L. Keinath, Purchasing Department
Long Island Lighting Company
A US non-profit research and educational institution
Ferry Reach 1-15, Bermuda
Telephone: 800-297-1880 Cable Address: "Biostation, Bermuda"
January 18, 1986
Mr. Dean L. Graves, President
Layton Industries, Inc.
61 Sachem Street
Wollaston, MA 02170
Dear Mr. Graves:
Thank you for your letter dated 20th January 1986. We have
used RUST DESTROYER®
on our 65-foot research vessel, "Weatherbird-. Specific
areas of use: crane controls (located outside, open to the
weather), decks, new winch fittings and hydraulic pipe ends,
plus spot touching-up on accommodations.
To date, we have found the primer very good, especially in
areas where it is too awkward to achieve complete scraping
and wire brushing. We are considering changing over from red
lead and zinc chromate completely to RUST
DESTROYER® primer in all parts
of the vessel. I would be interested in any other products
you may have or which will become available in the future.
Yours sincerely
Michael A Rhodes, Captain
R/V WEATHERBIRD
Managers - Agents - Ship Brokers - Insurance Brokers
86, Filonos Str., Gr-185 36 Piraeus, Greece
Mailing Address: P.O. Box: 80221, Gr -185 10 Piraeus. Greece
Cables: Digeve Piraeus, Telex: 11js24 . 212760 Sck Gr, Telefax:
01.45
Phones: 45 29 569 (4 Lines)
12 March 1990
Capt. Richard W. Stone
Stellar Maritime Services S.A.
86 Filonos Street 1S5 36 Piraeus
Dear Capt. Stone,
Several months ago we agreed to try your new product, RUST
DESTROYER®, aboard one of our vessels.
We put 100 gallons on board the M/V HAZEL at New Orleans with
instructions to the Master to use the primer in many different
locations and especially where rust problems were difficult
to control.
I am pleased to report that the Master advised us that RUST
DESTROYER® performs unbelievably
well and especially where previously he-was unable to control
the weeping rust. He requested that we send him as much as
possible.
Please call our offices to arrange delivery of RUST
DESTROYER® to all the ships in
our fleet.
Sincerely,
G. Ventouris, Director
Ship Managers
25 Akti Miaouli Street, 185 35 Piraeus - Greece, Telephone:
01-42 25127 Telexes: 21 3092 Pros Gr - 21 2369 Mago Gr Fax:
01-42 25130 Cables: Medmaren Piraeus
OUR REF 282/P/MGL
11.05.95
Dear Mr. Heiss,
Thank you for your letter asking for our opinion of your
primers RUST DESTROYER®
and RUST KNOCK OUT®.
We certainly agree that application should be made to Lloyds
for inclusion on their approved list of coatings.
For the record we wish to advise that both primers have been
used in the holds of our bulk carriers for the past three
years with excellent results. We are sensitive to the requirements
of the USDA and are pleased with the non-toxic properties
of both primers in addition to their rust converting and priming
qualities.
We hope this letter will be helpful as all the major classification
societies are requiring approved coatings.
Very truly yours,
Michael G. Lignos
Established in Greece under Laws An89/67, An 378/68, N27/75,
N814/78 15, Sahtouri Street, Gr 18536 Piraeus, Tel 426 3320,
Fax 428 3331, Telex: 211165
Teos Gr, Cables: Shipteo Piraeus
Our Ref A5 / DG/GEN
11.5.95
Dear Sirs,
We are pleased to resort that we have been 'using your rust
converting primers for the past three years with excellent
results.
"RUST DESTROYER®"
has been used extensively on all weather deck areas with no
deterioration as per your literature and guarantee. "RUST
KNOCK OUTTM, your waterborne primer,
has also been used in weather areas but primarily as a coating
for ballast and wing tanks. Even without the required topcoat
for guarantee purposes we have experience unusually good results
in the tanks.
Yours faithfully
Teo Shipping Corporation, as agents only
NRW Sales
Neil R. Williams
3831 Woodman Dr., Troy, MI. 48084-1154 810-643-9462 FAX: 810-649-5622
September 26, 1994
"THANK YOU RUST DESTROYER®
YOU SAVED ME $400.00"!
That is the comment we received from one of painters supply
& equipment company's customers at the Glenn Haege Home
Show September 18, 1994. He had purchased RUST DESTROYER® at the show
last year, painted The exhaust system on HIS car with it (yes,
his exhaust system! ) and didn't have to buy a whole new exhaust.
He figures that it saved him over $400.00. By the way, he
purchased another quart of RUST
DESTROYER® and left a very happy
customer.
RUST DESTROYER®
once again destroys the rust and makes people happy.
Ships Managers / Agents
65 Aki Miaouli Piraeus 1 85 36 - Greece
P.O. Box 80537 Piraeus 1 85 1 0 Telephone 4292610 /
8 lines, Telex 241479 /241880 SQUR GR Cables SQUALTD PIRAEUS
Telefax: 4293065
Piraeus, 25th May, 1995
Gentlemen:
In answer to your Piraeus agent's request
for a brief report on our experience with your primers, RUST
DESTROYER® and RUST
KNOCK OUT® we wish to report the following:
We have primarily used RUST
DESTROYER® in difficult areas where
cleaning to bare metal is virtually impossible and on steam
pipes. Results have been beyond our expectations.
RUST KNOCK OUT®,
as recommended, has been used in tanks and other areas where
steel is under constant water submersion with superior results.
Steel preservation appears to be much better than when using
some of the usual tank coatings.
We have been using these primers for almost
four years and intend to continue.
Yours sincerely,
SQUARE LTD (As Agents only)
P.M. Kallis
Dear People,
Not only does it do what you say it will do, but it will lift the scale you miss so you can scrape and finish. We live on the water, salt is always
a problem. It has been all of what you said!
Thanks,
Ted
Rill E. Ford
Gentlemen:
I am writing to find out if there is another dealer in the Muncie Indiana area that handles your product, RUST DESTROYER®. Our local Kurfees Dealer went out of business two years ago. I bought all he had left, now I am out. I use your product on Hay Rings or Feeders for large round bales.
Every spring I bring them in, pressure wash them and coat the bottom ring with RUST DESTROYER® and then a coat of oil base paint. Works Great!
Thanks in Advance,
Rill E. Ford
William L. Wilson
Back in the mid 80’s I was painting a house in El Cajon, CA. IN the backyard was a large wrought iron bird cage half buried in the dirt. The owner of the house stated: “If I dig it up, I could have it”. I did – and I took it home – hung it up in my backyard in a pepper tree.
I washed it off with the hose – let it dry and gave it a coat of RUST DESTROYER® (spray can). Let it dry for a day- gave t a second coat of Rust Destroyer. I didn’t give it a finish top coat. I let it hang in the tree for 1, 2, 3, 4 and finally 5 years and still no rust!
Each month I kept checking, finally 5 years 2 months later I noticed a small speck of rust coming through theRUST DESTROYER®. I’ve been using Rust Destroyer since the early 80’s and will until I stop painting or until there is no more rust – which ever comes first!!
The spay can of RUST DESTROYER® is the best spray of paint I’ve ever used. Even the 1st time painter using the spray can look like a “pro”.
Thanks for the great product,
William L. Wilson
JANCO
AIRLESS
SUNDRIES
1235 5th St. Berkeley, CA9471O
(510)527-9770
Mr. Tom Heiss
Advanced Protective Products
17-10 River Road
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Dear Mr. Heiss:
We refer to your two products RUST DESTROYER, RUST KTIOCK OUT.
Our company has been selling these products to our customer base, which includes
many construction and engineering companies.
The feedback has been most positive.. They like the ability of your products to
act as a penetrating anti-rust metal primer, which save substantial costs on shot
blasting and surface preparation prior to top coating.
We are happy to recommend both products for their durability and ease of use.
Sincerely yours.
Frank Andumar
Vice President, Janco, Inc.
Siperstein Paints INC.
Mr. Tom Heiss
Advanced Protective Products
17-10 River Road
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
June 27, 2005
Dear Mr. Heiss,
Re, your rust converting metal promers, RUST DESTROYER (solvent base) and RUST KNOCKOUT water base.
The ability of both products to convert rust to a passive state, thus reducing the high cost of surface preparation makes these products unique
We like the ability to top coat them with a large range of finishing coats including solvent and water base epoxies, bridge paints, paints containing aliphatic solvents, etc.
for our marine customers, they like the resistance to salt laden air on ocean and fishing vessels. Also the flexibility of the coating on steel decks which reduces the problem of the delaminating on a moving steel surface
We happily recommend your products for all metal surfaces, where a cost effective and durable solution to ling-term protection is required
Sincerely Yours
Steven Siperstein
Siperstein Paints INC
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