Poison Spyder Bombshell Diff Covers

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Hey Everyone.

Got some Poison Spyder Diff Covers. Figured you'd want pics.

I might even bash one with a hammer. Im pretty sure it can take a good shot. They are thick and heavy.

Here's a shot of them in bare steel. We painted them a few times, pics coming.

We started out with the dremel, with a wire wheel to scuff them up. Used the dremel 8220 cordless rotary tool. I had the Saw Max there too, so its in the picture, I cut 1/4 inch steel with the saw max before. They are tough little machines.

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Here they are with dark primer.

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We went with Flat black after the primer. I wanted to do the flat black as the background and cut out the spider and have it be the hammered finish.

It would have looked super cool, but I just couldnt get the painters tape to work on the paint. I could get it on there, but when I tried to cut out the spider, I would take the base paint off. It was a nightmare.

Regardless, I plan to bash them into stuff, so im going to need to be able to just respray them later. So no big deal.

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Here's how they came out.

I wasnt blown away. The spray can's cap was far more interesting then the diff cover, final finish. If I had it to do over, I would have stuck with the matte finish, or gone gloss.

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Here it is installed.

We were installing the Artec Axle Armor kit, so this cover wet on last. Here's how it looked. The Axle was just sprayed with glossy black paint.

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The stock diff cover held up better than expected. After seeing the punishment it took, i feel less that changing them immediatly is less neccessary than I thought.

The stock cover however didnt survive the testing.

The Poison spyder bombshell did however. This exact diff cover will be installed soon.

Once you install one of these your gears are safe as can be.

[Longbowdriver]

We go to the range over here with our personal weapons (contractor supporting the Coalition Aviation and Afghan Air Force) and we could test anything over here! Let's check out our 5.56 M4s/CZ805 (Czech) and the AAF's 23mm Geisha Mi-17s. Just send the stuff over here and we will really test the survivability. I agree the stock stamped steel did perform better than I expected! PS covers are definitely solid and mount flush. I've only seen one rig catch a lip of the stock cover and lose some HD oil; we were able to hammer it back in shape and used some type of sealant until we could fix it. Of course, we decided this was one-in-a-million and wouldn't expect it to happen except in sheer bad luck!