| Author | Message | ||
     Jim Reynolds (4x4xfar) Member Username: 4x4xfar Post Number: 213 Registered: 05-2003 |
Check this out, a little pricey but a nice solution to the age old problem. http://www.offroadtuff.com/images/RhinoRAC/RhinoDII/1660web.JPG -JIm | ||
| Jim Reynolds (4x4xfar) Member Username: 4x4xfar Post Number: 214 Registered: 05-2003 |
Here is the link to the site so you can look around : http://www.offroadtuff.com/RhinoRAC.htm -JIm | ||
| Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1295 Registered: 02-2002 |
$500! cough,choke......  | ||
| Jim Reynolds (4x4xfar) Member Username: 4x4xfar Post Number: 215 Registered: 05-2003 |
Bill it looks like a Centre priced it dosn't it?? Or would it be $1995.00 there?? | ||
| Blue (Blue) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Blue Post Number: 935 Registered: 04-2003 |
not enough holes to secure straps to bars $500 is about $300 too much looks good though | ||
| Robin Cooper (Cooper1) New Member Username: Cooper1 Post Number: 16 Registered: 12-2003 |
That's nice. I wish they would make one for the Garvin Wilderness rack. | ||
| thom mathie (Muskyman) Senior Member Username: Muskyman Post Number: 478 Registered: 11-2002 |
$500=ripp off | ||
| Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Dweb Lounge Member Username: V22guy Post Number: 2243 Registered: 02-2002 |
There's another guy out there in the WWW that has a polished diamond plate version. It's beautiful! The Rhino stuff does look nice and makes my welded-on expanded metal floor look like crap. Oh well..... | ||
| Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1298 Registered: 02-2002 |
Robin, if you're serious about wanting something for your wilderness rack - go to your local plastic supply house and buy a sheet of UHMW plastic - any thickness you want. Can be cut with a circular saw, jigsaw, holesaw - you name it. Wilderness rack is easy - flat floor. $500 for a piece of 1/4" thermoformed plastic is insane. Bill Bill | ||
| Greg Davis (Gregdavis) Senior Member Username: Gregdavis Post Number: 1095 Registered: 08-2002 |
So if one were to want to attempt this himself, how would he form the bends in the plastic? | ||
| Chris Browne (Chris_browne) Senior Member Username: Chris_browne Post Number: 482 Registered: 02-2003 |
McMaster Carr lists sheets of the same stuff varying sizes thicknesses and ask $250-$400 per sheet..... | ||
| Randy Maynard (Rans) Senior Member Username: Rans Post Number: 706 Registered: 08-2002 |
From McMaster-Carr. This is the closest I could get with specs available. The first is the premium version, the second is the standard version: Part Number 84765K843 $180.77 Each Material: Polyethylene UHMW Material Type: Premium Polyethylene Material: Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW) Form: Sheets Length x Width: 48" x 96" Thickness: .25" Thickness Tolerance: ±.020" Length Tolerance: ±.125" Width Tolerance: ±.125" Opaque: Blue Lowest Operating Temperature: Below +45° F Highest Operating Temperature: Above +100° F Operating Temperature Range: -450° to +180° F Performance Characteristic: High Impact Strength Tensile Strength: 3250 psi Impact Strength: 30 ft.-lbs./in. Hardness: Shore D: 69 Part Number 8752K913 $148.78 Each Material: Polyethylene UHMW Material Type: Standard Polyethylene Material: Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW) Form: Sheets Length x Width: 48" x 96" Thickness: .25" Thickness Tolerance: ±.020" Length Tolerance: +.5" to -.25" Width Tolerance: +.5" to -.25" Opaque: White Lowest Operating Temperature: Below +45° F Highest Operating Temperature: Above +100° F Operating Temperature Range: -22° to +180° F Performance Characteristic: High Impact Strength and Electrical Insulator and Wash-Down Applications Tensile Strength: 4600 psi Impact Strength: Unbreakable by notched Izod test. Specifications Met: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Compliant Hardness: Shore D: 62-69 So, for $300 more the Rhino gives you: colored black/grey whatever it is cut to fit attachment holes cut bent to fit slip proof surface attachment hardware some form of warranty shipping included. The price is still high, but starting to sound better. I might $400 delivered for one.... | ||
| Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1301 Registered: 02-2002 |
You want a UV stabilized UHMW PE for best life, even though standard UHMW will hold up quite well: http://www.roechling.com/polymrang.html Most of the material we buy comes from Roechling. Bill | ||
| Blue (Blue) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Blue Post Number: 942 Registered: 04-2003 |
I'll bet that quarter inch plastic will turn to butter when ambient air temp is in the one-tens, not to mention full sun exposure. Even at normal room temperature, how stiff is quarter inch plastic? There's a lot of empty space between the Adv rack cross bars... | ||
| Milli (Milli) Member Username: Milli Post Number: 46 Registered: 12-2002 |
I have polycarbonate sheet on the 90 roof rack. I paid $180 for a sheet from a local glass company. It's perfect, and indistructable. They use the UV stuff for race car windows, etc. You don't need it for the roof. | ||
| Glenn Guinto (Glenn) Senior Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 795 Registered: 02-2002 |
For anyone considering that flooring for $500 but don't have a genuine LRNA roof rack yet, please contact me. I'll sell you my roof rack for a cheap price of $1,995... Glenn | ||
| Matt (Doc175) Member Username: Doc175 Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2002 |
Any one with a full roofrack covering like that, I have a question.....Did your MPG drop compaired to the roofrack alone? | ||
| Milli (Milli) Member Username: Milli Post Number: 47 Registered: 12-2002 |
not noticable, but then, I don't keep track. | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 768 Registered: 02-2002 |
Matt- MPG drop? Not really. Noise reduction? Four Hella 4Ks across the top do a better job. So what is flooring good for you might ask? http://www.expeditionexchange.com/pismo2003/pismo0015.jpg http://www.expeditionexchange.com/deathvalley/PB280186.JPG | ||
| Steve Sherman (Ssherman) Member Username: Ssherman Post Number: 122 Registered: 11-2002 |
Craig, Is this the flooring that you have on your rack? |
