lanyard wrote:some of it's rust welded back together... .
And thus that is why to avoid all painted trailers. Hot dipped glavanized trailers are the way to go.
I've had brand new trailers have 30% of the paint off and rusty in 3 years time, and have seen paint peeling off of new trailers at dealers lot
Especially of you have tubular frame, they drill holes into so the galvanizing gets into the inside too which makes for a much longer laster steel frame. Paint never gets inside so condensation starts the inside rusting right away.
Another option is an aliminum trialer--but quite expensive compared to a steel/galv trailer.
I'd seriously suggest looking up some of the bigger boat dealers and see what the cost difference is between a painted and galv tlr. 10 years ago it was $80 more for a Galv trailer for 14-16' boat. It was the best $80 that I spent that year. The dealer I bought from used to be up next the Cabela's in Roger's. (I think they folded up or downsized when the economy went south 5 years ago). They did not even carry painted trailers for the very reason I mentioned above, as the dealer said: we want good customer satisfaction with our customers, so that's why we don't carry something that is going to make a customer unhappy. He had a VG point.
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God, help me be the man that my dog thinks that I am.