My trailer is very similar to yours. You’ll love the enclosed trailer
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Nice! What’s the temperature like where you are?
A balmy 60* today.
Finished product. 2 good coats laid down. For just spraying it, I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. Hopefully it holds up, but it turned out pretty good and was easy to apply. Texture is pretty good.
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Oh be still my heart, that looks good! I wish I would have used a liner like that instead. Good call!
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Every super build need SUPER TRUCKIN CHICKEN LIGHTS.
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That’s not so bad. I coated some skid plates for my truck in bedliner once and it was in the 50’s and took two days to fully cure.
That looks great!
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Most acrylics and even some epoxies can actually take 2 weeks to a month to “Fully cure” they will be dry to the touch, and even capable of light use before that, but curing takes longer than most people realize.
Good point. This was just bed liner in a can. The engine and transmission skid plates were aluminum and the transfer case plate was steel and already painted black so I just left it alone. I scuffed the aluminum plates with scotch pads, degreased, sprayed with self etching primer then did multiple coats of the bedliner and they turned out awesome. I’ve never done much painting but they looked about perfect.
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Sounds like you did perfect on the prep work. No one ever wants to do the prep, but it’s at least 50% of the longevity of the coating.
Clean, dry, dull and primed, add in the appropriate topcoat and your good for a long time.
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Thanks Chad! I am pleased with it so far. Just hope it holds up.
Thanks man @DisplacedTexan UPOL, the maker of Raptor liner said the “ideal” temp was 68*, but I needed to go ahead and get it down and figured I was close enough. Was actually surprised at how quick it set up. Still gave it a few hours between coats, but it didn’t take near that long before it wasn’t tacky any more.
@Greenman, that is one reason I wanted to go ahead and get it down so it would have time to “fully cure” before I started putting equipment in it. I will be pretty swamped for the next week or two so it will be a week or two before I get to really do anything else to it. I still have to spend some time “laying it out” before I mount anything as well. So it should have plenty of time to cure. That was the plan any way!
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Well it looks like it went on great. Do you have ome machine or two?
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Thanks man! I am pleased with how it went down and how it looks so far. Was actually pleasantly surprised at how good it looks. Fingers crossed it holds up!
Have two machines. One 8gpm cold and one 8gpm hot water skid.
Oh yeah you’re going to need some time for layout then. That’s always the fun part of setting up a rig for me. One suggestion I have for anybody doing enclosed trailer builds is to run as many hoses, lines or whatever on the walls as possible. It makes it way easier to move around in and makes spotting leaks much easier.
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I did my enclosed trailer this past June and did the same spray in liner and it held up this summer. Seems to be quite durable.
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Good to know! Thanks
Picked up the new tank this afternoon. I decided to go with a 325 gallon leg tank. This should keep both machines fed. Now to start actually getting some stuff installed and laid out. Let the fun begin!
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