Rubberized Coating?

[Brutus Buckeye]

OK it is official, I'm a freakin klutz! I have dropped my GLV a few times with no damage but this morning it skipped across the asphalt parking lot making a nice size scratch in the head cap. Of course it still fires like nothing happened as expected, just pisses me off that I did that.

Was wondering if a rubberized coating could be applied to protect it?

 

[QuikWgn]

Try Plasti-dip. It's the kind of soft vinyl coating they put on the handle of pliers. It's cheap, comes in a lot of colors and is really pretty easy to work with.

Plasti Dip Protective Coating Products | Synthetic Rubber Dip Coating

 

[Brutus Buckeye]

That was kind of what I was thinking, just not sure what it would look like. Of course if I keep dropping it then it may look worse.

 

[QuikWgn]

I used it for all sorts of things when I was doing chassis fab for drag cars and bikes. It holds up really well and you can just peel it off and change the color whenever you want. A can of the stuff used to be under $10. Just wrap the threads with teflon tape, dunk the whole thing, let it dry, then use an exacto or a single edge razor to cut it where the threads start, peel the ends off and the inside sleeve will pull right out.

 

[Brutus Buckeye]

hmmm, yeah the body and end cap would be pretty easy, the head cap would take some work but doable I think.

 

[QuikWgn]

Yeah it would require some crafty tape work, but doable. They even have a create your own color plasti-dip kit now.

 

[jaybird]

Iv used this product before. Its good for dipping tool handles in , but you may find it hard to get an even coat. Post pics , so we can see how it turns out.

 

[Brutus Buckeye]

Thanks Jay and for the PM response, my biggest fear is messing up my GLV but from everything it sounds like it is fairly easily removed also.

 

[jaybird]

It is easy to remove. You could wrap the GLV with plastic wrap before you dip it..it would still make a good cast of the body , and would keep the dip off the GLV. Check this out . Its one of the first GLV prototypes, and I used heat shrink wrap.

 

[Brutus Buckeye]

Nice Jay, hadn't even thought about heat shrink wrap.