Raptor bed liner

[David’74]

Hi all, has anyone used raptor truck and bed liner on their boats, I need to clean up my engine bay and bilge and was thinking of giving this a go. 

Raptor bed liner

Cheers Dave. 
 

[Athy]

Welcome to CWDF.

Are you commercially connected to this product in any way?

[NB Alnwick]

I can't comment on the product - I have always used Danboline. Which has been tried and tested for many years in marine environments.

[David’74]

Thanks for the welcome, no I’m not connected in anyway, was just enquiring if anyone has used it. 

[Athy]

1 minute ago, David’74 said:

Thanks for the welcome, no I’m not connected in anyway, was just enquiring if anyone has used it. 

O.K., thanks.

[Stilllearning]

If it is used after a thorough cleaning, de rusting and priming of the bilge and engine bay area , then it might be worth it. Otherwise it will merely hide problems until they are discovered in the future, and probably too late to be fixable. Clean back to bare metal, kill any rust still visible, then paint, don’t cover things up!

[Graham Davis]

Having seen the rust it has hidden under some pick up beds after having small chips in it I wouldn't touch it. 

A good surface prep and some decent paint will be much simpler and more easily repaired.

[LadyG]

7 hours ago, David’74 said:

Thanks for the welcome, no I’m not connected in anyway, was just enquiring if anyone has used it. 

Do you have a boat?

[Chagall]

2 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Do you have a boat?

Did you read the OP's first post or just Athy's?  

[Richard10002]

18 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Do you have a boat?

 

Hard to see him having an engine bay and bilge if he hasn't got a boat?

[Alan de Enfield]

22 minutes ago, Chagall said:

Did you read the OP's first post or just Athy's?  

 

You seem to have very high expectations which have spectacularly failed to be achieved in the past.

[Chagall]

6 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

You seem to have very high expectations which have spectacularly failed to be achieved in the past.

Well at least you've upped the chances... ?

[bizzard]

I thought this Raptor bed liner stuff was for bed wetters, or for incontinent Teradactyles to line their nests with.

[matty40s]

[David’74]

3 hours ago, LadyG said:

Do you have a boat?

Yes, I do. It’s a project boat that I’m busy renovating. 
 

10 hours ago, Stilllearning said:

If it is used after a thorough cleaning, de rusting and priming of the bilge and engine bay area , then it might be worth it. Otherwise it will merely hide problems until they are discovered in the future, and probably too late to be fixable. Clean back to bare metal, kill any rust still visible, then paint, don’t cover things up!

I’ll definitely be addressing the rust issue first. 

[dmr]

It looks like a two pack (epoxy) thing which is good but also appears to give a textured finish which is bad....really bad.  If you want to do minimal prep then possibly some rust treatment like Vactan with Danboline on top. If you can get back to almost bare steel then there are much more suitable epoxies, like Jotamastic 90.

 

............Dave

[David’74]

6 minutes ago, dmr said:

It looks like a two pack (epoxy) thing which is good but also appears to give a textured finish which is bad....really bad.  If you want to do minimal prep then possibly some rust treatment like Vactan with Danboline on top. If you can get back to almost bare steel then there are much more suitable epoxies, like Jotamastic 90.

 

............Dave

Thanks I’ll look into the Jotamastic   

[Bod]

On 16/02/2021 at 09:26, David’74 said:

Hi all, has anyone used raptor truck and bed liner on their boats, I need to clean up my engine bay and bilge and was thinking of giving this a go. 

Raptor bed liner

Cheers Dave. 
 

Reading the product sheet, you would need to be able to grit/sand blast the area for effective results, and allow to dry in a paint oven, for up to 5-7 days.

Looks good, but the devil is in the detail.

 

Bod.

[David’74]

15 hours ago, Bod said:

Reading the product sheet, you would need to be able to grit/sand blast the area for effective results, and allow to dry in a paint oven, for up to 5-7 days.

Looks good, but the devil is in the detail.

 

Bod.

Cheers for that Bod, it seems like a good product, waterproof, chemical and scratch resistant and acoustic damping, but with the preparation and curing seems like a retrofit is going to be PITA. 

[LadyG]

On 16/02/2021 at 17:33, Richard10002 said:

 

Hard to see him having an engine bay and bilge if he hasn't got a boat?

Sorry, I meant to say something about photos, but must have lost the thread. I assumed it was a steel boat rather than GRP.

Edited February 18, 2021 by LadyG