need suggestions on truck bed liner in bilge?

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:00 pm

Ok I need honest input . for those who do know i just replaced my stringers in my 10 meter. I then put two coats of west system over everything in the bilge as a barrier coat. I do industrial coatings for a living and have a 100 solids polyaspartic polyurea coating left over from a job in color stable white. polyurea is an extremely durable coating that is also flexible so it resists cracking (basically LineX truck bed liner) . the polyaspartic would go on in two 8 mil coats instead of bilgekote paint. I am now thinking of actually spraying our spray on version (just like LineX Liner) on at 60 mil (250 mil=1/4 inch) and then topcoating with the white which is rolled on. my biggest concern is added weight. about 10 Gallons of the spraying and 3 of the roll on. setting up to spray is a pita and will take me a day to set up. i have all material left over from jobs. I never ever ever ever want to replace stringers again! my wife and friends think im nuts! Im plan on doing the roll on at a minimum. am i crazy to do the spray as well?

ready123 · Post by **ready123** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:24 pm

Enough work already.. start using the boat

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:49 pm

LOL!!!!!

jddens · Post by **jddens** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:33 pm

I have linex in my 1972 Chevy pickup bed. Other than weight it is kinda porous and rough.......might be hard to keep clean or to clean.....just t a thought............John

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:00 pm

I think it would be a poor choice , use bilge coat or some other paint .

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:06 pm

paint it...

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:10 pm

Bilge area should be clean and easy to spot potential leaks. That's why many engine room and other access areas are painted white or a grey color.

As Paul mentioned, bilge coat or similar should be used. Good luck.

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:34 pm

mine are black..

got a Onan...

but agree lt gray or white, ezer to see dropped parts to

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:37 pm

grey bildge coat is what im doing, white would just drive me nuts when i see it get dirty, and not to mention after 20 years of working on white cars, it can be blinding in the sun, even down there i would imagine if the light is hitting it correctly

Big D · Post by **Big D** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:57 pm

If you used West System as mentioned, you could have employed an additive on a final coat that would give it a white finish, and that would have been better than anything you could add now as it would not be a coating that would eventually peel off but would actually be part of the hull.

foofer b · Post by **foofer b** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:02 pm

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:14 pm

Big D wrote:If you used West System as mentioned, you could have employed an additive on a final coat that would give it a white finish, and that would have been better than anything you could add now as it would not be a coating that would eventually peel off but would actually be part of the hull.

thats true, could have tinted your actual material. if its the pics i was thinking i saw, he did a nice slick flat finish, am i wrong?

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:28 am

Talk about unaniomus vote! my friends had an intervention on me tonight too! Aparently "overkill" was a term that came up alot! Think im going with the white polyaspartic coating without the spray on underneath.

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:40 am

For the record, this is me doing one of the 1st test years ago with polyurea to "Up Armor" the bottom of a humvee for "bomb blast mitigation" testing with Polyurea. Overkill for my bilge? I think Not!!!!!!
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