Bed components arrived today. Seven skid strips, 2 bedside angle strips and all the necessary bolts, nuts and washers.
Nice straight, heavy gage bed side angle strips. Zinc coated so no rust. All the holes are prepunched for the carriage head bolts. The gauge of the metal is a bit thicker than the rusted mess I pulled off. I suppose that means the new ones are bout the right thickness. Plenty stiff anyways. Here they are fresh out of the package from LMC. So far, everything I've gotten from LMC has been fine quality...some of it imported but available, fast, decent and it all fits and works.
And a bit of the smell of Rustoleum dark auto primer. This stuff goes on great, is wet sandable and the dark color really coats faster and more evenly than light grey. I suspect it'd be great for panel repair, really showing off the waves and pits since its dark. A bit harder to topcoat with black though, can be difficult for my myopic vision to see just where paint ends and primer begins...just need good strong light to make a decent job of it.
I think I'll save painting the 7 skid strips for Dad when he arrives. He deserves a chance to snort paint too. Sides, then I can grump at him for laying it on too thick or gettin a run or a bug or missin a spot...kinda brings back fond memories of my youth wrenching with him on the family 1937 Dodge 4 door sedan.
With luck, some black paint on these tomorrow and then using a stick of wood or three, jig them up and bolt them to the bed sides.