Structural Adhesive used in New F150
I have heard that Adhesive is used in the new Aluminum F150 Body. Seems that the adhesive is called Dow Betamate structural adhesive. Here is a Link to a post concerning this. I'm wondering ...
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Well if you are looking for an adheasive that is put to abuse, while holding together aluminum in +120F degrees, then suddenly is -10 and pressurized to 8 PSI, think of the last time you where on a airplane.
Did it fall apart? Well one did over Hawaii a few years back, but usually it never happens, and they land without the front falling off.
However if you google 'front falls off' you will find something on youtube about this. . But it is rare, as the video will show.
And Ford did load test a aluminum body stamped out on the 2009 body stamps, and gave it to a mine! They tortured the truck a lot, and as a result, Ford decided to put in slightly thicker aluminum than what was used in the truck at the mine. So that body was 5 years old before they even told the mine workers they had a test bed on their F-150 worktruck.
Aluminum has been used in Range Rovers for many years in Africa they hold up much better than other brands of trucks . .. I would have thought that Range Rover would have stopped using aluminum by 1970, BECAUSE they lasted so long. .
Fred.
Did it fall apart? Well one did over Hawaii a few years back, but usually it never happens, and they land without the front falling off.
However if you google 'front falls off' you will find something on youtube about this. . But it is rare, as the video will show.
And Ford did load test a aluminum body stamped out on the 2009 body stamps, and gave it to a mine! They tortured the truck a lot, and as a result, Ford decided to put in slightly thicker aluminum than what was used in the truck at the mine. So that body was 5 years old before they even told the mine workers they had a test bed on their F-150 worktruck.
Aluminum has been used in Range Rovers for many years in Africa they hold up much better than other brands of trucks . .. I would have thought that Range Rover would have stopped using aluminum by 1970, BECAUSE they lasted so long. .
Fred.
