The previous owner of my apparently left the bedstrips in the bed when he carried stuff. The strips are lightly scratched and I'm wondering if they can be easily refinished?
I'm not a woodworker, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has done any refinishing? These are the wood-grained strips.
The factory strips are wood grained plastic. refinishing would be not be easy. They could be painted to match your truck but would probably be re scratched. A few owners have made themselves replacement strips out of oak.
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Originally Posted by Rte66SSR
The previous owner of my apparently left the bedstrips in the bed when he carried stuff. The strips are lightly scratched and I'm wondering if they can be easily refinished?
I'm not a woodworker, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has done any refinishing? These are the wood-grained strips.
A good plastic polish should do the trick... it isn't wood.
The previous owner of my apparently left the bedstrips in the bed when he carried stuff. The strips are lightly scratched and I'm wondering if they can be easily refinished?
I'm not a woodworker, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has done any refinishing? These are the wood-grained strips.
You might be able to polish out the scratches with some ultra-fine cutting compound. If they're deeper than polishing can handle, but haven't damaged the woodgrain finish, scuffing, cleaning and a spraying a clearcoat that won't react with the plastic should take care of it.
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You might be able to polish out the scratches with some ultra-fine cutting compound. If they're deeper than polishing can handle, but haven't damaged the woodgrain finish, scuffing, cleaning and a soraying a clearcoat that won't react with the plastic should take care of it.
Another low-tech solution: Furniture touch-up pens (Home Depot type stores have them in sets of three different colors) do a decent job of covering some defects. If the strip is scratched with the grain (the painted on grain but still) the two brown pens in the set will mask most scratches pretty well.
Another low-tech solution: Furniture touch-up pens (Home Depot type stores have them in sets of three different colors) do a decent job of covering some defects. If the strip is scratched with the grain (the painted on grain but still) the two brown pens in the set will mask most scratches pretty well.
I have used these on furniture lots of times, They work pretty well. One trick I learned is to quickly run over the area with your finger after you apply it, it makes it blend in better. If you wipe too much off you can always give it another application.
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Another low-tech solution: Furniture touch-up pens (Home Depot type stores have them in sets of three different colors) do a decent job of covering some defects. If the strip is scratched with the grain (the painted on grain but still) the two brown pens in the set will mask most scratches pretty well.
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Scratched Bedstrips
apparently left the bedstrips in the bed when he carried stuff. The strips are lightly scratched and I'm wondering if they can be easily refinished?
I have used these on furniture lots of times, They work pretty well. One trick I learned is to quickly run over the area with your finger after you apply it, it makes it blend in better. If you wipe too much off you can always give it another application.
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