put some sliders on yesterday and they needed to get painted. a friend suggested herculiner from napa which sounded good. i'd be nice to have a non slip surface. i'm sure there needs to be some sort of undercoating on them and the frame. what have you guys used?

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herculiner sounds good I used the hammered finish paint on my flat bed and it is all ready wearing off in spots from sliding wood on it.

 

rustoleum, its what i am using on mine. Its really easy to touch up once you use them. I used rustoleum auto primer, then semi gloss black.

 

The bed liner material would be more costly than spray paint but I think it would turn out/hold up better. I have also see it in a spray can form

 

If your really going to use them as sliders, then I would just paint them. If you use any kind of bedliner it will be hard to fix or blend later. Plus if you use bed liner it will make them not slide.

 

Don't forget the Bumper Paint (spray) they have (local PEP Boys or equivilent) , it has a wrinkle finish and is much tougher finish wise than the primer or standard paint

 

i'm thinking i'll just use the herculiner on the tops of them. good idea on the bumper paint. i think i'll head down to napa later today and see what they've got. thx guys

 

i'm not too familiar with herculiner but it sounds like a PITA to make look good on just the top. what i would do is get some grip tape-like material (some sand papery material they might use on boat decks or something) and put a strip on the top. Thats about as non-slip as it gets

 

I suppose powder coating is out of the question, then? I've seen inexpensive PC'g kits at Harbor Freight. $40 appr.?

 

i guess some grip tape would work but when mud gets on it, it ends up getting dirt stuck in the stuff. that stuff also will peel off down the road.

 

The bumper paint is tough and would provide the same traction benefits almost as the gripping tape , it would be easy to touch up since its a orange peel finish and it comes in a matte black finish which would contrast nicely , not quite as dull as the primer flat finish , and using that paint if you just took some coarse grit emery cloth and roughed up tubing in the high traffic areas it would be very durable as well .

 

I used finger nail polish on mine.

Rustoleum.

 

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PS - whats with the 5 character minimum for a reply ??? can we apply for a character reduction

 

If you haven't done anything, look at my thread: https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...l-poor-126819/ That's another option. It's the non slip and it looks pretty good. Too soon to see how it holds up, but it should be pretty tough. If you decide to Herculine it, buy it at Walmart. Much cheaper.

 

sand paper lol use sandpaper my dad did that on my brothers skate borred and it worked better then grip tape he used some realy strong glue to get it to stay on there tho

 

I always wanted to get sliders and bumpers....clean them up real nice so they are just shiny bare metal...and spray them with rustoleum clearcoat I like to look of the metal and good welds. Plus I havent seen it done yet. Maybe it sjust me, but i think its a badass idea

 

napa didn't have herculiner but got the duplicolor equivalent along w/ the "bumper paint". i'll sand it down tomorrow during lunch and get some pics up asap. man those things came out a lot better than i was expecting. rear bumper goes on next weekend or the one after that. using 1 3/4 .120 dom. i'll make a thread for rear bumpers so post some pics there.

 

I wonder if you could herculine the top of em, and paint the bottom, that way you could get non slip stepping surface, and your sliders would still slide.

 

POR-15 them and grip tape the top.

 

Thats a good idea