{"id":1261,"date":"2013-08-12T19:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2014-10-26T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T02:05:19","slug":"bedliner-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/08\/12\/bedliner-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedliner Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had the liner in for a total of two weeks, and here’s my report.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t let it get too old. I’ve had this kit sitting in a climate-controlled cool, dark corner for two (three?) years while I got my act together to spray it in. In that time, the primer hardened to a solid in the bottles, the main component skinned over about 1\/2″, and the black activator component looked like it was beginning to go bad. The folks at Al’s were very helpful and suggested I buy more activator when I ordered replacement primer. When I got the order they even threw in a spraycan of mold release, which helped when cleaning the spray gun out (the excess basically peels right out).<\/li>\n
  2. Mix it really well. I used the mixing attachment they supplied with the kit, which probably works fine for brand-new materials, but I could have used something with a wider paddle to really get things mixed well. I sprayed the primer on the bed as instructed and then mixed the first batch of liner. When I test-shot it on some spare door panels, I got a white foam for the first 30 seconds or so and then the liner started coming out\u00e2\u20ac\u201csome of the C component may have been bad as well. This was after 5 minutes of mixing. My liner looks good but there are little boogers here and there where the main component hadn’t dissolved all the way, and they’re still sticky.<\/li>\n
  3. Dial the pressure in early. The pressure on my compressor was set very low to begin with (around their recommendation) and I got a very thick, gloopy spray at first. It was so bad that I was getting random puddles in different areas as I tried to clear the nozzle. I shot about 1\/2 the hopper worth of liner before I got wise and increased the pressure, and at that point the spray went on smoother. I’d also recommend having a thick-nap roller handy to smooth out the puddles; I wasn’t thinking ahead that far but in hindsight it would have made a big difference.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So it’s in; I’m relatively happy with the results but I wish I’d had more time to experiment with the compressor and think through the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve had the liner in for a total of two weeks, and here’s my report. Don’t let it get too old. I’ve had this kit sitting in a climate-controlled cool, dark corner for two (three?) years while I got my act together to spray it in. In that time, the primer hardened to a solid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedliner"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}