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Date:         Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:43:50 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Vanagon Application????
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My son runs a window tinting business and does commecial and military contracts. On one recent military contract he installed bomb-blast proof window tint on some military buildings. The plastic film that was used will stop a 45 caliber bullet fired from ten feet away. Thg glass under the film will fracture, but the film - like all tint films - is glued to the surface of the glass and holds the glass together to prevent glass shards from becoming shrapnel and flying everywhere hurting people and causing other damage. To prevent the entire pane of glass from coming out of the frame during a blast and flying across a room like a frisbie and cutting off heads, the edges of the tint are sealed to the window frame with a 3M industrial tape that has a glue strength and fabric strength like nothing I have ever seen. Amazing stuff!!! This tape in this application is two inches wide - 1 inch over the tint film, and one inch over the window frame. It is heated to 400 degrees to trigger curing. Once cured, the window frame, the tape and the tint are all like one continuous piece, and a blast would virtually have to blow the window frame out of the wall to damage the area on the opposite side of the glass. The main point being though, to control flying glass.

So, anyone see any application for this tape on the Vanagons?

Regards,

John Rodgers 88 GL Driver


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