My coating purchases include a gravity-feed spray gun. During the van's exterior work, the sprayed bedliner result varied with the coating: Rust-Oleum pooled in places while my notes favored RAPTOR's more consistent finish.
My van with masking around the exterior areas prepared for coating.
The item in my kit
I bought NEIKO Gravity-Feed Spray Gun as part of my camper van equipment.
My coating purchases include a gravity-feed spray gun. During the van's exterior work, the sprayed bedliner result varied with the coating: Rust-Oleum pooled in places while my notes favored RAPTOR's more consistent finish.
Where it fits my build
I taped the boundaries and covered the areas that would not be painted with plastic sheeting. I then sanded the exposed areas with an orbital sander and 60-grit abrasive, blew away the dust with a compressor, and cleaned and degreased the surfaces.
I mixed clear bedliner with white tint and sprayed the van. After it dried, I removed the masking. The tape and sheeting stage alone took around eight hours, and the finished edges still needed some touch-up.
The side of the van during the white-bedliner project.
My build notes
The most useful detail in my diary is the result, including the problems. Rust-Oleum pooled and dripped in places, and trying to repair one area with a paintbrush made it worse. I wrote that I would use a foam roller for touch-ups and preferred the more consistent finish I had obtained with RAPTOR.
Masking, preparation and application method each became a substantial part of the exterior-coating job.
Alternative products
Two alternatives to compare
The TCP Global undercoating gun uses a lower suction-feed cup. The U-POL gun is another coating-sprayer format, so cup layout and the coating application method distinguish the alternatives.
TCP Global Undercoating Spray Gun
This pneumatic spray gun draws coating from a cup below the gun body. Its suction-feed arrangement provides an application format for undercoating and bedliner materials.
This spray gun applies U-POL protective coatings from a connected coating container. An air supply drives the spray during bodywork and bedliner application.
