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<div>Alec,</div><div>My research so far shows that aerospace parts are glued also. I am sure the Lotus folks are pretty closed lipped about how they do it. I will do some testing, just checking with the group to save some time and headache.</div><div>What are you using for a ballast an now? or is it a surprise.</div><div>Hank</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Friday, December 22, 2017, 5:29:20 PM MST, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv9820811262"><div><div dir="ltr">Lotus Cars famously have done that, introducing bonded aluminum chassis with the Elise and continuing it on subsequent models. The reason is that welding weakens the material, so if it were welded they would need to increase the amount of material and it would eat up the weight savings. Problem is, I don't know the specifics of the glue they use nor the process. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alec</div></div><div class="yiv9820811262gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9820811262gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 6:57 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9820811262gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9820811262yqt0334284336" id="yiv9820811262yqt40904"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hi All,</div><div>I have an idea that requires glueing aluminum plates together. Has anyone tried this? any success?</div><span class="yiv9820811262HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div>Hank</div></div></div></div><br clear="none">______________________________ _________________<br clear="none">
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