Gary Tabor wrote: > > I would like to locate a really "non slip" coating for the bow deck of my > plastic kayak. [for my dog] > So whatchall think? Is there a rubber, vinyl, ? waterproof coating I can > apply to my plastic boat? Polyethylene does not bond well to much of anything. About the best you can do is roughen it thoroughly with 80 grit sandpaper and hit it with two coats of Weldwood contact cement. Apply two coats of the same to one side of that padding sold for use under carpets and slap it on. It will not last forever, but the padding is cheap, and a replace job is not much more work than the original. In the bright side, when you get tired of the padding, one of the heavy-duty adhesive removers used to prepare windshield recesses before putting in a new auto windshield will take the contact cement off. The carpet padding is incredibly frictiony, and is sold in marine stores as a "non-skid" material. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jul 04 1999 - 21:18:48 PDT
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