Rhino Liner on fold flat floor

[MD500E]

I recently had my new truck bed sprayed with rinoliner and while the guy was prepping the truck I removed the rear fold flat floor and asked if he would spray the top surface. He said no problem if I did the prep. Well it works GREAT!! Every time I used to put paint buckets full of tools on the back floor they would slide side to side and scuff the doors. Not any more! I will post a picture if anybody is interested.



Kevin

 

[NLofton]

I spray speedliner, its close to rhino but the speedliner does'nt turn dull and chalky over time. I spray it in tool boxes a lot, works great. I sprayed a set of 4-wheeler racks too, hard to beat. Now, if i could only find time to spray my own truck that would be nice.

 

[DFriedson]

Speedliner and Rhino are not the same products. Rhino is 100% polyurethane (no solvents) and Speedliner is a solvent based brushable polyurea paint. Speedliner will keep its color better but it loses its shine and becomes dull. Rhino will fade to gray over time.



Now, before you slam me for calling Speedliner a paint, by definition, it is a paint.

 

[NLofton]

I would like to see you spray it with a paint gun I think maybe you are talking about Herculiner. Go to www.speedliner.com if you think its a paint.

 

[PKemp]

Hmmm, looks pretty thin. Lot of body line definition still very apparant on the speedliner website example pictures. The Rhino linning is quite thick. I have a 10 year old linning (Rhino) that is ¼ inch thick and impervious to harm. But..... it does gray over time. Mine did. You can thin the rhino stuff and it will run thru a wide nozzle paint gun. I'm sure the speedliner is the same type application.

After serious investigation:

Okay, on the speedliner website they do show it as a sprayed liner using a wide nozzle gun. Thats pretty standard. I examined both the Speedliner technical specs and the Rhino Liner tech specs and it does indicate that the Speedliner coating is stronger and holds color much better. Also It can be sprayed in layers to increase its thickness, which is exactly how the Rhino linning is done. One other thing is that the Rhino liner comes in only select colors but the Speedliner linning can be matched to the vehicle color. Both are skid/slip resistant.

So seriously comparing Rhino against Speedliner, Speed wins..... Both are however dealer installed and require good preparation and are not DIY'ers.

 

[DFriedson]

Speedliner is a solvent based product (like Herculiner). (The solvent is ethyl acetate. ) You mix one gallon of resin with one quart of activator and apply it using a roller or a hopper gun. Speedliner does not have good adhesion properties and thus a primer must be used first. (Watch their installation video and see them spray the adhesion primer. ) I have the MSDS's of both the Speedliner liner products and the primer products. A paint is a mixture of pigment and binding medium thinned by a solvent. By the way, Superliner is basically the same as Speedliner.



Rhino (and LINE-X) contain no solvents and no primer is needed. You mix the resin with isocyanate (a harderner) at a 50:50 ratio. Rhino uses a room temperature/low pressure application system; LINE-X uses a heat/high pressure proportioning machine.



No flames, that's just the way it is. Pick the product that makes you happy!