Plasti-dip/flex seal clear

[wintermte]

10 minutes ago, plinkercases said:

In Ontario some folks dedicated (one word for it) ride well into the shoulder season and we use salt and brine on the roads which even if the roads are clear it is picked up on boots getting to and from the bike. May want to see what salt does to it if you salt the road in WI.

You should post some pics of your destructive testing program and results if you have them.

I hadn't thought about salt and whatnot.  I'll try that out as well.  I have a bucket of salt from the winter left over still (I'm in Wisconsin so use this as well).

[wintermte]

More testing updates.

I beat up on the Flex-Seal pretty well, and it seems to be holding up.  I ground some wet side walk salt into and let sit for a while like that, walked on it (a lot) with it sitting in my gravel driveway, and while the thin piece of leather I'm using isn't fairing so well (there are lots of dents from being wet on the gravel and drying that way), the Flex-Seal is still intact.  It has lost some of the glossiness to the finish however.

I also have now tried the Rustoleum Leak Seal clear spray on rubber and Plasti-Dip clear spray as well, but haven't torture tested them yet.  The Rustoleum is already not great as it has a white-ish buildup in a couple of spots - so I likely won't continue to test it.  The Plasti-Dip is fantastic thus far because it is easily removable from died leather.  I even was able to peal  a small part off and respray that spot alone.    I'll be roughing it up hopefully tonight.