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Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:33 pm

to sum it up...
I had some old running boards that the covering was rotted and the boards had a little rust... I ripped off the "covering" and sanded the boards down to the metal ( I neglected to take "before" pics,crap) but any ways, I was planning to paint them a gloss black... But,once I got to the store to buy the paint I started thinking.. hum... I wonder how rubber under coating would do.. So I decided to grab a can of 3M professional grade rubberized undercoating and sprayed the bare metal boards as the instructions suggested... and well I am very happy with the results :-D
anypoo... here's a couple pictures... I'll update with more pictures once the coating has dried and I put on the new thin molding strips I got for them...

3M professional grade rubberized undercoating I used:

Results 20min. after applied: nice textured finish

Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:49 pm

Fattie wrote: I'll update with more pictures once the coating has dried and I put on the new thin molding strips I got for them...

I'll be interested to hear if it actually ever dries... Most of the spray-on undercoating that I have used stays sticky for a LONG time...

Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:14 pm

my buddy used the same 3M brand undercoating stuff on the underside of his pans but I don't believe it was the "pro grade"...anyhow.. it took over a week before it was no longer tacky :lol:
but once it was dried completely... it left a nice hard textured surface

Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:35 am

I used that stuff on the inside of mine. I dries to a nice surface on bare metal. I'm interested to see the final pic's. I have been thinking of doing this to a set of stainless steel boards that I have for my car.

Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:35 pm

Dry yet?

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:04 pm

DeMinimis wrote: Dry yet? :P

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:41 pm

yea.. but dont think I can use 'em... damn cheap jcWhitney junk
they come up short and the mounting holes on the fenders are way off compaired to the running boards mounts holes :evil:

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:45 pm

oh that really sucks!!!!!!! they look nice though

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:49 pm

They dried up well then? Looks good. Still outgassing much? Was thinking I might spray that on my new floors (over the Por 15 and under pad and carpet).

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:51 pm

outgassing :?:

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:52 pm

DeMinimis wrote: They dried up well then? Looks good. Still outgassing much? Was thinking I might spray that on my new floors (over the Por 15 and under pad and carpet).

i was thinking of spraying rhino liner over my rust bullet job in the interior. but i decided not to, for the simple fact if you ever for some reason have to re-apply (rust bullet is only guaranteed for 10 years) i didn't want to be scraping away at it. so i rhino lined the underside of the pan instead of both sides.

Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:55 pm

Fattie wrote: outgassing :?:

Outgassing (sometimes called offgassing, particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the slow release of a gas that was trapped, frozen, absorbed or adsorbed in some material.[1] It can include sublimation and evaporation which are phase transitions of a substance into a gas, as well as desorption, seepage from cracks or internal volumes and gaseous products of slow chemical reactions. Boiling is generally thought of as a separate phenomenon from outgassing because it occurs much more rapidly.

wiki knows everything.... :P

Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:17 pm

bon2198 wrote: Fattie wrote: outgassing :?:

Outgassing (sometimes called offgassing, particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the slow release of a gas that was trapped, frozen, absorbed or adsorbed in some material.[1] It can include sublimation and evaporation which are phase transitions of a substance into a gas, as well as desorption, seepage from cracks or internal volumes and gaseous products of slow chemical reactions. Boiling is generally thought of as a separate phenomenon from outgassing because it occurs much more rapidly.

wiki knows everything.... :P

In other words, does it still stink?

Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:26 pm

DeMinimis wrote: In other words, does it still stink?
:lol:
No

Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:28 pm

Right on. Think I'll give the floors a shot (especially in the batt area).

Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:34 pm

bon2198 wrote: ...they look nice though
all dressed up and nowhere 2 go :lol:

Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:43 pm

I wonder if that would look good on a cal look bumper? The Bug is white and I dont like chrome too much.

Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:48 pm

Fattie wrote:

That better be a finger.....
:oops:

Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:06 pm

Jeckler wrote: That better be a finger.....
I would hope so :shock:

Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:18 pm

Pizzle, you've been "gotten" the same way i was 15 years ago by JCWhipme.... same thing, running boards... same situation, shaped wrong and came up short.... that was one of the few, and the last, things i ordered there...