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Hey, I'm Steve Smith with Camper Van

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Freedom. The Custom Coat bedliner roller kit

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and my Custom Shop textured roller covers

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lasted longer than the other rollers I

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tried on my van.

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They still gradually came apart while rolling

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bedliner. That difference in working life is

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why I preferred them,

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rather than because they never wore out.

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The complete Custom Coat kit groups the

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roller covers with a frame,

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tray and brushes. The separate Custom Shop

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purchase is a pack of textured roller

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covers. A complete application kit and replacement

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covers solve different buying needs,

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even though they belong to the same

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roll-on coating workflow. Rolling starts with loading

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the cover from a tray,

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then transferring the coating onto the working

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area. The cover is the part in

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contact with the surface.

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Its construction affects the texture it leaves,

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while the tray and frame have different

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supporting jobs. That is why I look

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at more than just whether a kit

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includes a roller. My exterior coating project

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involved extensive masking, sanding and cleaning before

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the main sprayed finish.

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Some areas pooled and dripped,

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and a brush repair made one patch

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worse. That gave me a reason to

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think about roller approaches and touch-ups.

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My photographs show the actual van during

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that coating project. With the Custom Coat

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kit, I tried the rollers on the

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outside of the van and preferred them

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to the others I used.

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Every roller I tried gradually broke down

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during the bedliner work.

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These held up longer,

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so they are the ones I would

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choose again for another roll-on bedliner job.

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My experience with the separate Custom Shop

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textured covers was the same.

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They lasted longer than the other rollers

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I tried, although the covers still gradually

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came apart. I am keeping the kit

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and cover reviews together here because that

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comparison is shared, while their individual product

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pages retain the separate purchases and buying

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options. The kit page compares small XDT

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foam rollers and a FoamPRO corner roller.

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The cover page also compares a Custom

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Shop texture-roller kit. Those formats change the

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contact surface, head shape or supporting pieces

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supplied. A foam head,

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a shaped corner head and a textured

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cover are different application tools to compare,

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rather than identical replacements by another name.

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Thanks for watching. I'm Steve Smith with

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Camper Van Freedom. I preferred these Custom

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Coat and Custom Shop rollers for how

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long they lasted in my bedliner work,

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while expecting the covers to wear out.

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Both full product reviews,

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their matching pictures and buying options are

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linked below. See you on the next

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project.