On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:49:41 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:35:20 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
"William Wixon" quickly quoth:
Larry Jaques wrote:

I'm not willing to pay $300 for a fancy liner or expensive spray-in by
a professional. What other options does a cheapa&H&H&H&H&H&Hfrugal
guy like me have?

i used SEM tintable spray on urethane bed liner. sprayed on with a schutz
gun. it's ok, i like it, but i think a slippery liner is better. this one
is a kinda rubbery urethane non-slip liner. after using is for a while i
came to think a HARD slippery coating would probably be better than a
rubbery non-slip coating. (so you can push two pallet loads into the bed,
and pull them back out. once i put a pallet in back and there was a nail
sticking out of the pallet, it slashed the rubbery liner, i wondered if
there was a HARD slippery liner if the nail woulda just skidded across the
surface w/o cutting it.) i think it was about $150 for the kit. you can
get a pint of color matched paint and mix it in to match the color of your
truck, so you don't have to settle for black if you don't want to.

Thinking more deeply about it, I prefer a slippery bed, too, but not
for pallet loads. I have a LoadHandler and would need to buy a $70
slippery bed mat for that if I used it with a rubbery bed liner.
Hmmm, the plot thickens...

I was happy with a plastic drop-in before, and probably will be again.

Doesn't matter whether it's 'slippery' or 'sticky' bed coating, or a
molded 'drop in bedliner', if I slide in a pallet of anything heavy
into the truck I always put a layer of plywood or chipboard in the bed
first. Two layers of plywood if you plan to skid the first pallet to
the front of the bed by pushing it with the second pallet.

Then your load has something sacrificial to slide against, as wood
pallets ALWAYS potentially have loose nail heads and/or gravel and
rocks sticking out on the bottom friction surface. You could even
embed abrasives like that in plastic or press-molded pallets.

My utility bed is steel diamond-tread, and I still do that. Don't
want to mess up the paint too bad.

-- Bruce --