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Secure Paint with a Spring-Loaded Pole

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Stop the MESS! #hack #truck #fyb

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What happens here

To secure the paint cans, take an 'Ease-Up Wall' or 'Zip Wall' (which is a spring-loaded adjustable pole) and place it horizontally across the truck bed. Extend the pole by pressing its spring-loaded mechanism until it firmly wedges between the two sides of the truck bed, directly in front of or behind the paint cans. This creates a secure barrier that prevents the paint from moving or sliding.

Goal: Use a spring-loaded adjustable pole to prevent paint cans from sliding.

Tools and materials

  • Ease-Up Wall / Zip Wall — To create a secure, adjustable barrier across the truck bed
  • Gallon Paint Cans Reval — The items being secured
  • Truck Bed — The environment where the securing takes place

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I once had a disaster having a five gallon bucket of paint slide up, hit my toolbox tip over and is oil-based primer when everywhere, what a mess. If you've got these ease up walls or zip walls hanging around as a painter, you could use these things just to set them inside the back of your truck just like that and now my paints aren't going to slide around. This is an easy spring-loaded zip wall right here or we've got the ratchet type zip walls right here that we can use.

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