Poly and Slickem

[Rich Andrews]

Yesterday I was with the Florida Mgr of PPg(which is a paint company). They supply paint from A to Z...consumer electronics to Boats. While BS ing with him we naturally started talking airboats. I asked him if they have a product that would stick to Polymer, and be rugged enough to withstand some friction....he thinks they have something and is going to investigate it to for me.
Question here is, yeah poly is slick, but a slick bottom over the poly would be unreal on the ground IMO. Has anybody tried this?

 

[D-BREWSTER]

RICH IVE HAD OILER'S ON ALL MY PALMBEACH BOATS AND SHOT BLACK MAJIC CAR WASH AND SOAP AND WATER ONTO MY POLY WHILE RUNNIN STICKY PASTURES OR AFTER GETTIN STUCK , ITS WORKS GREAT AND COULD SAVE YOU ON A DRIED UP TRAIL..

 

[Rich Andrews]

no doubt the oilers are a great tool, imagine how slick you could be if your polymer had some slickem on it? It would be like ridin on baby Shiat on the ground. Might help it no not heat up as much either?

 

[barhopper]

Finding something to stick to polymer will be the hard part. It has been my experience from working with polyethelyene (polymer) that the only thing that will stick to it is more polyethelyene. regular paint will not work but your paint guy might have something that will but will most likely be expensive.

 

[Rich Andrews]

he's got some stuff he thinks may work..about a hunders bucks a gallon. Similar to bottom paint they use on salt water boats. We injection mold parts and use a paint which sticks to a glass/oil impregnated poly carbonite plastic. They make paint that can stick to anything.Question is how good?

 

[cowboy]

Hey Brewster,
When we get one of our bow sprayers rigged back up, I wanna try loading the tanks with some liquid polymer.

We use this stuff to sabilize deep shaft foundation excavations.

Man! It's slick.

You get it on your hands, and you can hardly get the slickness back off of them for a loong time washing them with water.

A little bit of it will go a loooong ways, so the spayer tank could maybe be smaller.

U/V Sunlight breaks it down to nothing in about 3 days. 3% bleach will bust it down to water in no time.

No enviro hazard with this stuff.

I bet it would be like having marbles under the boat on a sidewalk.