My bed on WCJr looked like hell, so I bought some cheap Seymour rattle-can spray-on bedliner. I planned on reapplying whenever it got dinged up, but the chintzy crap scrapes worse than just spray paint. When I do it again on Roscoe, I'd probably go with something better.
I don't like kiddie pool bedliners.
I was decently enjoying clear bed spray from rustoleum, its definitely light weight, but on my obs ford the tail gate is all i did becuase of the fat-man-impression in the center of the tail gate (joke) and slippery smooth paint, stepping into it when wet was surprisgly daunting , once in the bed its not bad. Its held up a year now, but I didnt put it on heavy either, just to make it have a little resistance to not be unsteady esp when the rear shocks are probably not doing much so bouncy house while climbing up.
Ive painted a Square bed with EZ-Slide graphite wear coating which is a friction
reducing coating used in ag stuff a lot, and the one can did cover the bed but Id say it needs two cans in the layers as proper yada yada, but then it would only need to be reapplied periodically. the single can I noticed that my lack of doing much for prep has peeled up a lot, but I wasnt about to whip out a grinder and rust sponge and look like a tweaker cleaning rust from the rusty bed trailer with a topper on it. plus id have to hook up to it lol...
Anyway, the reason I tried it was to lower the friction between plastic garbage bags when I use tools to empty the trailer. Worked OK. but the grey does look nice.
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This is the surface( I did spray it with pressure washer to be fair) that I put the coating onto.
I think I decided Im going to use some ply wood to create a flat surface and then paint the plywood, although that paint is not meant for wood.
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For reference this is the F150s bed. I Think Im going to be for many years needing a slick bed more than a safe bed, but people shouldnt be touching my bed anyway and if i hurt myself then maybe I should have thought that through further.
I was looking at dump truck bed coatings which can be gotten. they do work. but the cost to do a bed with a purpose coating like that would be high for something I may be able to replicate by finding a plastic liner or useing a wear coating etc