BLACK aluminum diamond plate boxes?

[Jeep Puller]

I'm looking for a box to mount on the tongue of my trailer. What I really want is an aluminum diamondplate box powdercoated black, I don't want or need the style that fits over bed rails, butrather just a plain rectangualr box or ideally a trapezoid-shaped box specially designed to be mounted on a trailer tongue. I'm finding some in black, but either too small or waay too expensive, and I've about exhausted the internet! I also have had no luck locating a powdercoater anywhere near central Illinois who could redo a bright aluminum box in a beautiful black powdercoat.
Any ideas?

[03BlueHD]

Not to jump on your bandwagon, but I am looking for the same thing, in a mudflap. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[DalDMax]

Something like this....

http://www.boards4less.com/49padlatdiam.html

They have black powder coat.

Also found quite a few more.
Here's another one

http://www.boards4less.com/49padlatdiam.html


Hint: Go to Google.com and search for "trailer tongue box" to see a lot more of them.

[ 08-08-2003, 07:33 AM: Message edited by: DalDMax ]

[ratlover]

I bought so stuff off of www.awdirect.com (http://www.awdirect.com) and they were pretty cheap and good to work with on my light bar. They show some boxes but in shinny Al.

I am going to have a body shop in Peoria that I am pretty familiar with shoot a steel box black with paint. Not as tough as powder coating but I think it will hold up fine. Might be a bit cheaper.

[MAV (formerly Maverick)]

There are 2 powdercoaters in Schofield, WI. One is Chem Chrome and the other is Color Coating Plus (I think). Chem Chrome does all the powerdercoating for Blizzard snowplows. Do a yellow pages search on the internet and you should come up with a number.

Color Coating Plus painted my brush guard gloss black on my 93' Chevy. Cost like $20 bucks.

[dmaxstu]

My God Maverick you lost all your seniority by changing your handle, I can't believe it. Stu

[Stoner]

Jeep......Put one of these in my duck boat several years ago. Not built real heavy, but I stand on it all the time......so far no damage tongue.gif

Black Diamond Plate ATV Box (http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jhtml?id=0013282520925a&navAction=push&navCount=6&indexId=cat20153&podId=0013282&catalogCode=ID&parentId=cat20153&parentType=index&rid=&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fcatalog%2Fitem-link.jhtml.1_A&_DAV=MainCatcat21412&ha***=true)

[Jim Cobler]

Why not Line-X the box? I think you will find it is more reasonable than you think. I had my mud flap bar covered with Line-X. It looked sharp and was reasonable.

[MAV]

dmaxstu,
Yes the forum took Maverick from me :(
I re-registered "MAV (formerly Maverick)".
I figured it was to long. Everyone pretty much calls me MAV anyway so now its MAV. It should have about 2,000 posts and member since April 2001. Back to zero.

[Jeep Puller]

Thanx for the info and ideas! Here's the best one I had come up with, but although it looks dark in the pic it's actually available only in bright aluminum. I did find a powdercoater here locally and am looking into the cost of blasting and coating locally. I really like the Line-X idea. I don't know why that hadn't occurred to me, since I absolutely love it in the bed of my truck.I might even be able to talk them into letting me do the prep on it to save a bit.
Thanx, everyone!
(forgot the link - I'm tired)
http://www.tellico4x4.com/storage/atv.htm