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02-28-2012, 04:30 PM | #26 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
I think I'm going to try the kool seal/micro balloons too. It's cheaper than other stuff. I don't think it can hurt a 30 plus year old truck.
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02-28-2012, 07:39 PM | #27 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
if I can catch enough lizzards, I might try skinning them and glueing their little hides to the floor pan.
Otherwise, I've thought about geting the micro spheres and mixing them in some bed liner material and coating the panels with that. it would be more durable than latex.
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03-03-2012, 11:33 AM | #28 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
man, this is cool! ive been using the peel-n-stick from lowe's....the poor man's dynamat
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
very cool, too late for me but I did give it a thought, some one else posted up on the mirco ballon. I just got done with the last step on insulation.
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03-29-2012, 08:57 AM | #30 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Any updates on this experiment?
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03-29-2012, 11:42 AM | #31 |
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i read like 60 or 70 pages of a thread on this. may have been the one you posted, i didn't look. great to see this tested here
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
I haven't mixed up or sprayed anymore since I last posted. I am happy with how the latex mix sprays out and dampens noise for what it cost. The airspace from the micro balloons would make this stuff great for roof skins and firewalls to minimize heat transfer into the interior. It's much lighter than Dynomat or other stick on sound deadener since it's half air ballons that weigh nearly nothing. That's a huge advantage if you're building a dual purpose track car/daily driver and want to keep weight down as much as possible. That said, I eventually want to try mixing micro balloons with Kool Seal elastomeric roof coating and see how much better (if any) it is at dampening sound. I would think that the softer coating would absorb vibrations in the metal better and reduce the level of transmitted sound more than latex does.
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03-30-2012, 03:36 AM | #33 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
I'll be trying this in the next couple of weeks!
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04-18-2012, 07:11 PM | #35 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
While researching the micro sphere additives for the paint I came across this product. Sounds like more along the lines of what we really need for this home made coating.
http://www.hytechsales.com/insulatin...additives.html
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I would do a test panel using the high hump tunnel cover and play around. This way you could mix a small amount of paint as a test and not have a tough part to scrape clean if things don't work out.
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but I'm wondering if anyone has actually used this and what kind of results you got. I always like to hear from actual experience. Thanks.
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
How was the heat difference???
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03-20-2017, 11:36 AM | #41 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
I made some up this weekend, i put an open flame to it and noticed a 60 degree difference!
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03-20-2017, 04:16 PM | #42 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
I learned about this from the hot rodders forum a few months ago. Been thinking about it on and off, but had a few questions for those who have done it. How well does it hold up? Does it kill any of the sound on top of the heat barrier? What kind of paint did you use? Can you put any fatmat/dynamat down on top of it? And how many gallons was needed for your reg cab or [preferably] Suburban?
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03-29-2017, 10:37 AM | #43 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
All I did so far was mix it up with some cheap latex paint on spme scrap sheetmetal, and test it in my garage.
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Looks good
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Somebody ought to ping the OPon a PM. I already heckled him on another thread so it can't be me, haha.
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02-13-2024, 09:25 AM | #46 |
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Opon?
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Re: Trying Out Homemade Lizard Skin- $10 Per Gallon
Original Poster on a PM (should have spaced the on)
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