Underbelly Fabric

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I recently had to remove some of the underbelly plastic fabric on my trailer to work on my water tank. After removing the screwed on metal strips that fastened the fabric to the bottom of the frame rails I found that the fabric was also glued to the bottom of the frame rails with some black, sort of rubbery stuff. I'm guessing this was done to temporary hold the fabric up while the metal strips were installed. Does anyone have an idea of what this stuff may have been? Is all underbelly fabric also glued to the frame? When I pulled the fabric off the frame rails it pulled off the adhesive pretty easily so it wasn't doing much. The adhesive did stick quite well to the frame rails.

wyotraveler · Answer

Coroplast. Check the  internet. Home Depot may carry it.

helmsey · Answer

Also check a local sign shop, they likely have it in 4'x8' sheets.

drewe · Answer

With all due respect, I'm pretty sure coroplast is not the rubbery adhesive used to hold up the underbelly fabric stuff (which, in the OP's case, sounds more like the tarp material stuff than Coroplast).

I don't know what the adhesive is, but perhaps it is something sort of like roofing tar. I wouldn't think it's essential to replace with the same stuff, especially since it's not what's mainly holding the fabric in place. If you can scrape the old stuff off, hot melt glue might do the trick for reinstallation...or even a few staples from a staple gun.

memphisdoug · Answer

I do not have the Coroplast on the bottom of my trailer. It is the fabric tarp stuff. I was able to get it reinstalled today by just working my way down each edge. I would tug on the fabric until I could reinsert the bolt back through the fabric in the hole it came out of and then back into the frame. No adhesive needed.

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