I have a dump truck that I try and paint the bed every year to protect if from rust as it sits out some. I am wondering how the non tar non asphalt (probably a latex or water based) would work. Has any one ever coated a piece of metal and left it exposed out side with it? Another thought is to clean and paint the underside of my mower deck. I don't want to use a tar based.
Any one ever used driveway coating for a bed liner??
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metaleltr
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I think you would have better luck using bed liner as a driveway coating,
I think I'd avoid using anything in a dump truck bed that isn't at least a little slick.
If you're looking to go cheap and sacrificial, consider aluminum paint. Otherwise, there are graphite coatings intended for dump bodies
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If you're looking to go cheap and sacrificial, consider aluminum paint. Otherwise, there are graphite coatings intended for dump bodies
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mark18mwm
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Try spraying it with your drain oil. I know several guys that oil dump truck boxes that way. Cheap (drain oil usually free) and effective. If you are worried about oil mixing with your load just pressure wash it out in the spring. Up here in Wi. years ago a lot of old timers sprayed their drain oil on the bottom of their cars / trucks to help the salt used here from eating up the metal.
Ross/Kzoo
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Another vote for bed liner paint. You could roll it on. Check Menard's.
58Yeoman
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Go to the farm store and pick up some slick paint that they use to paint the insides of corn wagons. It's slick and should last a while. I don't remember the name.
turnpikecrusier
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When we built our house in 2006 I used an epoxy coating on the garage floor, I had some leftover so I painted the floor of my trash trailer. It is still on there, you mite try some of that. Got it at home depot.
wylee
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keep the body up when stored, put some blocks under the bed rails so it stays up. it would surface rust in the winter, but we paved in the sumer, we used fuel oil, and soap( d e c friendly). what are ya hauling? what ever bed liner ya use is guna ware off.
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Where does that oil go when it washes out?
This isn't a good idea environmentally...
mjeff87
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58Yeoman
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EZ Slide...graphite based. Slick stuff...
Jeff
Yeah, that's the stuff.
Well to be honest what my original intent was to wash out, dry out and crawl inside my septic pumper truck and coat the inside of the tank to help prevent it from rusting. The driveway sealer I seen at Lowes can be rolled on with a roller. It comes in a 5 gal bucket and I didn't want to waste any left over so I thought I might use the rest to coat the inside of my bed on dump truck. (I have a fresh air supply) But since posting, I have found this. Any comments . I have also heard some people using "Rhino" type of spray. http://www.amesresearch.com/bluemax.htm
MatBirch
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I need to chime in- 12 years as a "pro" bedliner shop, started with. Line x for the first 4 years. I've seen and tested nearly every incarnation of product intended for the job, as well as the well thought out, and not so well thought out ideas to use other stuff.
For your dump body, I agree with the previous comments about sliding. Don't do anything that will grab. From a rust protection standpoint, a coating only works of it is completely intact. We've all seen the rusting scratch on our fender... So any coating will only help until it's used the first time in a dumptruck.
For your septic truck- don't do anything that will form a membrane, like ANY kind of truck bed coating! Whether rolled on or sprayed on. Even the cheap ones will create a membrane that is inherently strong within itself. What I mean is it will make a "sheet" that exhibits high tensile strength and doesn't tear or break easily. What ends up happening is that since the coating doesn't chip, crack, or flake, any failure (especially inside a tank) will end up as a complete failure. There is no "feather it out and touch it up". You will have a "bag" within the tank. At the very least, you will wind up with huge sheets of loose failed coating plugging up the works!!
My recommendation for both, would be Penetrol. It's a paint additive, but works wonders on bare steel as a rust prevetative. Cheap, easy to recoat anytime, doesn't effect future ability to paint...
For your dump body, I agree with the previous comments about sliding. Don't do anything that will grab. From a rust protection standpoint, a coating only works of it is completely intact. We've all seen the rusting scratch on our fender... So any coating will only help until it's used the first time in a dumptruck.
For your septic truck- don't do anything that will form a membrane, like ANY kind of truck bed coating! Whether rolled on or sprayed on. Even the cheap ones will create a membrane that is inherently strong within itself. What I mean is it will make a "sheet" that exhibits high tensile strength and doesn't tear or break easily. What ends up happening is that since the coating doesn't chip, crack, or flake, any failure (especially inside a tank) will end up as a complete failure. There is no "feather it out and touch it up". You will have a "bag" within the tank. At the very least, you will wind up with huge sheets of loose failed coating plugging up the works!!
My recommendation for both, would be Penetrol. It's a paint additive, but works wonders on bare steel as a rust prevetative. Cheap, easy to recoat anytime, doesn't effect future ability to paint...