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For me its just the mucky/smeary black clay
To paint or not to Paint the trailer.
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You must have gotten rain by now (I would be swamped if it werent for the sand).. How did the paint hold up?
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So far so good.
It dont seem to get real hard like real paint though. On a really hot day, you can tell its asphalt based as its real tarry and sticky.
It dont seem to get real hard like real paint though. On a really hot day, you can tell its asphalt based as its real tarry and sticky.
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Sticky enough to get on your hands or cloths?
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No. Not that sticky. But sticky enough I can use a fingernail and pick some off.
Kinda like asphalt sealer on a hot day.
IF I ever had to do over, I would probabaly use this stuff for all the "under coating" (If it holds up well), and I would use a enamel paint on the sides and GN part. Everything that is tpuched frequently.
Kinda like asphalt sealer on a hot day.
IF I ever had to do over, I would probabaly use this stuff for all the "under coating" (If it holds up well), and I would use a enamel paint on the sides and GN part. Everything that is tpuched frequently.
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mine dried nicely in a couple days max. you didn't add diesel to it did you?
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Nope, no diesel added.
It dried very nicely on the boards. but on a blistering hot and humid day, the steel dont feel fully cured.
You dont notice it as being "wet" or wont get any on you if you brush against it. But if you take your fingernail and dig at it, its like digging at a seam that was sealed in asphalt. I think it will be excellent for everything out of sight. The jury is still out on the areas that get touched frequently, like the GN and the sides and ramps...
It dried very nicely on the boards. but on a blistering hot and humid day, the steel dont feel fully cured.
You dont notice it as being "wet" or wont get any on you if you brush against it. But if you take your fingernail and dig at it, its like digging at a seam that was sealed in asphalt. I think it will be excellent for everything out of sight. The jury is still out on the areas that get touched frequently, like the GN and the sides and ramps...
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i bet they are going cheap on the paint nowadays. probably putting junk in it.. or mor elikely. govt mandates have made them make it poorly. 
good luck on it.
I've still go tthe asphalt piant on my flatbed i put on in like 2002. coating is hard as nails.
good luck on it.
I've still go tthe asphalt piant on my flatbed i put on in like 2002. coating is hard as nails.
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And this may eventually get hard. But with using water as a carrier for the asphalt, and the fact that it has been near 100% humidity since I painted, maybe it isnt fully dried yet.
The boards dried quickly. So taht gives me hope as the boards absorbed alot of the moisture out of the paint, the steel didnt so it all has to evaporate.
The boards dried quickly. So taht gives me hope as the boards absorbed alot of the moisture out of the paint, the steel didnt so it all has to evaporate.
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yep.. forgot that. you are using an emulsion based paint. not the straight oil asphalt i used.
the emulsion will dry.. it will just take a bit.
I work with asphalt emulsion at my day job... prime coat for limerock prior to putting down asphalt.
frame on that truck wil never rust.. and some archeologist will dig it up in a million years and it will be preserved like a wolley mamoth in a tar pit.
the emulsion will dry.. it will just take a bit.
I work with asphalt emulsion at my day job... prime coat for limerock prior to putting down asphalt.
frame on that truck wil never rust.. and some archeologist will dig it up in a million years and it will be preserved like a wolley mamoth in a tar pit.