Skid plate materal

[nedceifus]

whats the new rage in skid plate material? Is there a high speed material that people are using these days over AR steel?

 

[handloader90]

UHMW seems to be pretty popular in the go fast sports.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/gene...skid-plate-tech-questions.html#/topics/610452

 

[nedceifus]

Hmmm,

 

[skunked]

Just know it will need to replaced after some abuse, especially at 1/2".

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Keep in mind you still need a good skid plate under the plastic.

Mine's AR plate and has been doing well.

 

[Bent77]

There has to be someone around with some old loader bucket plates

 

[FOR MUD]

I have a box of hardface rods laying around, next time I have my skid off I'm going to use them. I welded up about ten backhoe buckets with this stuff for use around rocks and they held up well.

 

[Stephen]

There are some higher grade sheet alloys around like Domex and the stuff Goatbuilt uses is XT100 I think, both are about 3x the strength of a standard "mild steel" but still about half of a AR plate