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Does this mean you can scrape a car in a car park but so long as the owner is not back within an hour, get away with it?
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All we need now is the self healing steel panel to take care of the dents.
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All we need now is the self healing steel panel to take care of the dents.
urban myth or not? dont the big car companies have the patents for self healing panels and bumpers etc etc locked away somewhere?
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Seems we're only scratching the surface of the potential of such a product.
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There are various plastics that have a memory and will return to the original shape. The use of a hair dryer on some plastic car parts help in returning to an approximation of the original shape.
IIRC the plastic covering of a Volvo 240 bumper responded well to this treatment. However it was of little benefit when the car met its final demise! (The lampost stopped when it reached the bulkhead, (and I was in the passenger seat)).
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The use of a hair dryer on some plastic car parts help in returning to an approximation of the original shape.
To use my own car as an example, for escort with body coulored bumpers, there is a crack in the rear bumper from a shopping trolly, had to use bumperfill on that and repaint.
Ford escort van's and posibly base model cars, grey plastic bumpers, apear to be the same plastic as my old nova, I got that to pop back into shape just by pointing a heat gun at it.
Now surely with the right primer they could paint those grey bumpers? Then in the event of a minor bump it would just need to be heated up to regain it's original shape.
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urban myth or not? dont the big car companies have the patents for self healing panels and bumpers etc etc locked away somewhere?
The yanks have had Endura since 1968, used for front and rear ends. The Pontiac Fiero was made entirely from the stuff. Clever plastic that deformed on impact them returned to its original state. The technologically superior european and japanese manufacturers are still making plastic bumpers that shatter and crack on impact, providing a multi million pound aftermarket for manufacturers and repair companies.
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My late father was an engineer who specialised in plastics, particularly on the injection moulding side and design of products manufactured from plastics.
I remember him telling me many, many moons ago that plastics had a "memory" and would gradually return to their original shape (within reason) if twisted or bent.
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