I'll be done with the frame and deck on my little trailer tomorrow. New 5 x 10 with diamond plate for the deck. Any good paints you've used that don't wear off quickly on the diamond points? I used a black agricultural paint on some Jeep leaf springs about 15 years ago, toughest stuff I've ever used. I'd love to coat the trailer with something similar. Ideas? Thanks, JB.
The hammer finish and wrinkle finish paints are pretty tough. Lowe's carries the Rustoleum hammer finish in spray cans and quarts. The regular Rustoleum paint is not too bad. It all depends on how much you want to spend on the paint. Urethane would be good but it is going to cost more. You could also get a DIY truck bed coating kit like U-pol Raptor and cover the whole trailer. http://www.amazon.com/U-Pol-Products-0825-RAPTOR-Black/dp/B00NOIKSPC
When I stripped and repainted my trailer I used the Rustoleum brown primer and then another couple coats of Rustoleum on the top. I've had that trailer about 7 years now, and there's scratches through the top coat in a few places, but the primer seems to be holding up fine. I looked into the por15 stuff back then. It's supposed to be crazy good stuff!
I've used POR-15 in the past, just never for a whole unit application. It does work well, but I always painted over it. I use Hammerite all the time, love that stuff but I don't want to hit the trailer with a couple dozen cans. POR may be overkill as the trailer is fresh steel, so very little corrosion at this point. Always thought it was a rust catalyzer that left an effective primered surface when cured. I've got about 20 gallons of Tnemec equivalent primer at the shop, was planning on using that and that "bomber proof" Ag. paint, if I can figure out what it was. The guy that got it for me is dead now so I'm on my own with that one. Not a lot of agricultural work going on around here, was hoping you guy's could point me in the right direction. Thanks, JB.
Hammered finish in a quart. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Ole...-Paint-7215502/100670381?N=5yc1vZaqetZ1z1409i That paint you used 15 years ago is probably different today. They probably have a different formulation because of the VOC's. It may or may not be as good as it was back then.
I'm of no help here. Had a friend redo the bottom part of a cattle trailer with the cheep bedliner stuff. But he's went and sold it so I have no idea how it's holding up.
A great paint that I love for this kinda stuff is from John Deere. Thier semi-gloss black sprays on like a dream, is fairly tough, and about $35 a gallon. I have sprayed a lot of shop projects in my time and that is my go-to paint. On the downside, you should use thier neutral primer (which will freak you out because it's more of an old CAT yellow) and thier thinner. For some reason it really only kicks ace with thier thinner and primer...
Can't tell you how it will hold up as my son and I just built it. We used the rustoleum brown primer and covered that with GTO Judge orange the neighbor had left over. Looks good, at the moment.
Probably was something just like that. Guy who set me up with it designed and built custom seeders in the Central Valley, Ca. Mechanical genius. I'll check into it, thanks! JB
Thank you. Found the axle buried in tall grass when we bought the farmstead. Almost threw it in the scrap trailer but saw it had bearing buddies on it and the hubs turned freely. Since we homeschool and my oldest gets bored with book work, we built the trailer as a shop project. It turned out pretty good and he has a utility trailer of his own now.
I used rustoleum rusty metal primer and then top coated that with rustoleum professional paint and added tractor enamel catalyst from TSC when I did my splitter and that paint was tuff as nails! It looked like new when I sold it after a couple years of use and abuse. On an old ford ranger I was working on I used chasis saver and it was as good as por15. ( I think they are similar paints ) It layer on smooth as glass when it dried and you could beat it with a hammer and it didn't flake off or crack. It nicked it up but as paint goes it is tuff stuff.
