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Hi,
Fenders on Cobra trailer fade after a couple of years. Anyone ever painted them? What paint did you use? Can it be done with a paint brush? Regards, S6 |
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Normal procedure is to wait until the tire
blows out and takes out the fender, at which point you get new tires and fenders ;-) PS: Don't ask how I know. PPS: M&H and Murray stock fenders. |
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Go down to your local RV trailer supply and buy 2 steel fenders. Take
one useable fender with you to size it. Then pre drill your mounting holes. Find a powder coat shop and powder coat them. Mount em up and now you've got a fender that is stronger than the old plastic one that won't shater when you have a tire go to pieces on you and the powder coat won't fade. |
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Second the nomination for steel fenders. I replaced the plastics on my
old Komet with steel. In short order I then a) hit a deer carcass doing around 40 mph and b) had a tire disintegrate doing around 70mph. Aside from some cosmetic damage (one red stripe, one black stripe), the fenders came through unscathed. Plastics would've been reduced to shrapnel. The mounting holes can be a pain if the radius of the new fenders isn't precisely the same as the old; it's hard to use the existing fender as a template. I ended up welding some additional material to the fender to create a wider mounting flange; cheap and easy. Erik Mann LS8-18 (P3) |
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Forget "The Graduate": the future is not plastics when it comes to
trailer fenders. Make offer on a right side blue Cobra fender: ca. 1992, only used one season before the other one was destroyed by a piece of tire retread flipping up into it. I bought two galvanized steel fenders from Northern Tool (then called Northern Hydraulics) that have held up well. IIRC, I was able to make two of the four mounting holes work as is. And since the steel fender was slight bigger than the plastic one, I drilled two new holes in the trailer and put a piece of plastic tape over each hole in the [wheelwell of the] trailer, which has lasted 13 years. I just took a look at Northern Tool's Web site. They no longer show the galvanized fenders but have a large assortment of steel, aluminum and plastic fenders for sale in many sizes. I suspect shipping is expensive so in the U.S., shop your local trailer supplier, or maybe Sears. Chip Bearden ASW 24 "JB" |
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Oh yeah I forgot to say you can sit on the steel fenders too. If
you're not too fat and you buy the heavy gage steel. |
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Thank you all for your reply.
My fender are perfectly correct. I do not repair what is not broken. Any suggestion about which paint to use on plastic, applicable with a paint brush. Regards, S6 |
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If you paint the fenders with a paint brush . . . they'll *look* like
they've been painted with a paint brush. Suggest instead you stroll down to Home Depot, or similar hardware store, and purchase a rattle can (spray can) of paint intended for plastic - - think it's marked for use on vinyl, but suitable for other plastics too. It'll give you a much nicer finish than you'll likely achieve with a brush. all the best, bumper wrote in message ups.com... Thank you all for your reply. My fender are perfectly correct. I do not repair what is not broken. Any suggestion about which paint to use on plastic, applicable with a paint brush. Regards, S6 |
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He must be a fat guy.
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Voilą!
Thank you Bob K. S6 |
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