I'm goin' Plastidipin'...

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:00 am

Since building Prometheus, I've been in and out of alot of H2O, and I've noticed spots of rust and corrosion on and around the truck.

I can't have that!!

My first problem to tackle is the highly corrosive batteries.

I went online and did a search for some type of coating that I can use and that wouldn't affect the properties of the batteries. ie.cooling, heating, breathing, charging, discharging...

Some of you may be familiar with what I used, but some, if not most, may not be.

I found...

PlastiDip

Its a liquid plastic that you can dip items into and create a stong, colorful, tough, waterproof coating on!!

Its simple to use. Just DIP IT!!

As some may know, I am crazy about my GREEN.

Well, the only size they had avalible in green was a ONE gallon can for almost $50 USD!! Way too much!

So what I ended up doing was to think back to about 2nd or third grade and I remembered that YELLOW and BLUE make GREEN!!!

I bought a small can of yellow, a small can of blue, and a small can of clear to increase the volume. It came to about $35 shipped and arrived in less than a week!!

I then needed an AIR TIGHT container to mix and store this all in. IMPORTANT: Must be airtight!!

I set up an area for the batteries to hang out and dry. I just zip tied them to a string. If you have hooks, that would be easier.

I only applied one coat. If you wanted to do more coats, is OK, but I think more is totally unnessasary, approx 30 minutes between coats. According to the instructions, approx 4 hours of drying time is needed till useable.

Here's what went down...

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:09 am

Cool, man... I just used Plasti Dip a few months ago to rubberize some sharp parts on a furniture dolly. I was pretty impressed with how well it worked. Dig the green you mixed... I've only seen it in Red and Black.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:21 am

hue35 wrote:Cool, man... I just used Plasti Dip a few months ago to rubberize some sharp parts on a furniture dolly. I was pretty impressed with how well it worked. Dig the green you mixed... I've only seen it in Red and Black.

Ya, I HAD to have green.

They only sell the green in 1 gallon cans and that $50+S&H.

I plan on doing my servo's and then ballooning my RX and then dipping it!!

Bird gave me the idea for the RX. Its deticated to the truck, so dipping it won't be an issue.

I have an H2O proof ESC, so everything will be good to go real soon.