Different types of Trex

skobi1 · Addict Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 639 City: eugene, or

OK I want to use Trex on my A frame but there are lots of different types of it. Which one is the right one.

www.trex.com

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

Just the normal "gray" Trex you can get from Lowes works fine. One side has grooves and the other side is flat. just flip it over and use the flat side. Works fine. I believe they are 5 or 6 inches wide. We use 2 side by side....worked fine. We built this one (48ft) in about an hour with 3 people.

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

Then the place flooded and we built this one the next weekend from some spare parts. its PVC but either works fine.

cwaker4 · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 465 City: Gilroy

Cheb75 sick rails, how many beers did it take to get your to hlep you build it? it looks like theres quite a few cans/bottles in the bottom of the pic. Smile

skobi1 · Addict Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 639 City: eugene, or

Cheb75, can you get a close up of the trex material and the surface, I really dont want to spend a bunch of money on the wrong stuff.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Mar 17, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

skobi1, At home depo there is a thiner type on trex (different name) and is wider.

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

hahaha! beer bottles where some friends from the past excusions...some othe guys I ride with dont really like to hit sliders, so its mainly me and one other guy who do it.every now and then we get another friend who pitches in and gives us a hand.

closer pic?...Sorry man I dont have a camera anymore. Dropped it, and it broke, I'm in the process of getting a new one.

Lowes sells it. Its grayish and feels rough but once you slide it a few times it gets smoother. I've never seen Trex at Home Depot...or any kind of composite decking material for that matter....or atleast here in Dallas, TX. We always went to Lowes for the Trex.

This is another pic of a lil trainer we built out of the scrap trex left over...just a little 16fter.

I tried to Zoom in as much as possible before it gets to blurry. But you can sorta see it. Its the closet pic I have.

If you look close on the ends you can see the 2 "groves" on the bottom of the Trex, and you can see how we're using the other side, flat side, as the sliding surface.

skobi1 · Addict Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 639 City: eugene, or

cool, thanks!

03Belmont · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 4656

Cheb75, did you not place anyboards under the trex? how is it spaning without flexing alot

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Mar 19, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

Cheb75, It looks like it would flex ALOT>? Confused

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

No, we didnt put anything under the trex.

We built it in like 25 mins. its only like 16ft long..a trainer

16ft trainer which = waste of time

Some of my friends that are to scared to hit the real slider built that one just try.

16ft is so short your on it and off it in like 1 sec. plus its so low in the water..its like only 6 inches out of the water....its a joke. Rolling Eyes

I think I hit it like 3-4 times. didnt notice any flex....probably cuz it goes by in like 1 sec. Not much of a slide really.

actually some guy came by who obviously didnt know what he was doing and try to hit it and fell and hit his ass on it and broke it in half. the trex still held together but it had a nice crack across it. Probably one more hit and it would snap in half. We didnt care, like I said its just a trainer for the kiddies who didnt wanna hit the simple flat bar we built.

BUT... the longer trex one you see above DOES have a 2x10 under it. You just cant tell by looking at the picture. I believe we used like 4 16ft 2x10's and then screwed the Trex down to it. Counter sunk the screws...worked nicely. That was SUPER solid..no flex at all. You'd have to be there to see what I mean. To bad it got flooded. We built the PVC one back the next weekend...worked just as good.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Mar 21, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

i know thats what we say...we've been trying to get them to hit it for over 2yrs now.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Mar 21, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

Cheb75, Just make them,

"Not coming in the boat till you hit and 'real' Slider."

Laughing

premier this 1 6 · Newbie Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 33 City: Dallas

those are some sick rails dude....I wish you would come to G-Vine and help our sorry asses out.

Beaver · Posted: Apr 27, 2005 6:12 am Post subject:

premier this 1 6, stop draggin up old posts.

wake09 · Criminal Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 71

does pvc piping reck your board??

QNev · Posted: Aug 30, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

wake09, it shouldn't but in the long run it will. It's like plastic on fiberglass.

Hey Cheb75, how deep of water are you in and what's pulling you? You'd bite that pretty hard if you fell eh (looks shallow)?

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Aug 31, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

If I can rember right the water was only 1.5'-2' deep.