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| | | | Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 | I am building a trailer from an old bed. I was planning on running a fiberglass resin coated sheet of plywood in it as a floor. But I got to thinking, is there anything like that plastic stuff that they make decks and fences out of these days in a sheet?
Brian
1948 Chevy Pickup
Chopped and sectioned
owned since 1974 when I was 15.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | look for stuff called "arena board" to put on top of marine plywood - it's the plastic sheet they use around hockey rinks [where it might be called 'puck board'], near bullet proof
Bill | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 | You can buy 4x8 sheets of plastic like they use in car washes right at Menards. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 101 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 101 | More durable hum bug. My 41 has the orginal wood bed and was used to haul grain and how knows what for the 20 years it was a farm truck. Just a little sand paper and a new coat of varnish and its as good as new. Accept the few deeper gouges but hey they are beauty marks  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 | Four inches of concrete with rebar in it oughta be just about bulletproof. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,317 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,317 | I used a composite deck product called Veranda...available from Home Depot. Its a grey color, comes in 8' lengths, cuts like butter and has a wood-grain print on one side. I followed their directions as far as spacing and used carriage bolts instead of the bed strips. I didn't add any additional bed cross members and after a year it looks as good as the day I installed it. I have a picture in my webshots "Shoebox album" (pg 8). Hope this helps.
Dave | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I would steer away from any coating over wood even marine treated. My father-in-law was in the boat business and I've seen high dollar Sea Rays just a few years old with rotted decks. They use a marine plywood and it just won't hold up like good old oak or hickory or some other hardwood. Fiberglass over wood holds in the moisture. You want the wood to breath and dry out.
Just my 2 cents...
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 | Some great stuff, THANKS!
I'll post when I am done. I just picked up that axle and hubs today, can't wait to get it on the road again!
Brian
1948 Chevy Pickup
Chopped and sectioned
owned since 1974 when I was 15.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 |
Jim & Caroline
The highway is for gamblers, better use your good sense."
Gooday-that's my 1¢ answer due to the lousy economy ~ cause I ain't got - no . mo . doe
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