I expect the next one to be easier as this Lafayette was the ugliest in the bunch.
No, it will never get easier...
I used to get pissed when radios kept coming back with same damage the owner did - got to a point where I had to remove variable pots and replace them with fixed resistance arrays to keep the customer from blowing finals.
Caught the issue you had with "Fish eyes" - that brings up a issue I've been seeing about that polar high you are talking about.
This is part of a much bigger picture of a long term cycle dealing the solar cycles - seems that in some cycles, the solar winds that bombards the earths outer atmosphere is heated up and blown/pushed back - then as the cycles settle down - that "air" is recaptured and thru the process of vortices (think cyclonic flow and Coriolis effect) is gathered by earths gravity and it's weight pushes down - that air is extremely dry and not acclimated to our atmosphere so it has a vastly different dewpoint (lower) and affects how paint exposed to such dry air, cures.
Only possible solutions I've found, and since most of the stuff we depend on is made now in china and not sourced locally, you may have to find Isopropyl alcohol and Coleman "White gas" to wipe down and remove their original base primer "fish oil" (Rustoleum) carrier and wetting agent that they used for many of todays paints are lacking the surfactants that older lead-based relied on to find those grooves and imperfections in the metal surface to fixate and have the paint adhere to. The older base paints and oils they used were of the 70's era and nowadays the new stuff is like giving a kid a stick of chalk and telling them to draw on the sidewalk - lasts until it rains...
It doesn't help, with the long-term effects of chemtrails still yet not fully understood - we as a planet become the guinea pig "test subjects" to experience these extreme events.
