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Originally Posted by Magnon
Surely it's the araldite that provides the strength, the cotton wool, wood shavings or whatever is just bulking it out like ballast in a concrete mix.
Plasterers fibreglass perforated 'scrim' tape is useful stuff when coated with araldite for repairing holes or splits.
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I quite agree Magnon.
Cotton wool, wood shavings, tampons (are cotton wool aren't they?), rubber gloves are all providing the "filler" material to provide a base for the magic of Araldite.
Similar things go on with many other forms of composite materials technology -
GRP - glass reinforced plastic
RC - reinforced concrete
But, in these other cases the matrix of filler is providing structural strength to the composite.
ps the pic in the OP makes me smile - maybe not all of the damage was done in a single "off", but the OEM BMW pannier survived well.
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Last edited by Walkabout; 4 Nov 2012 at 12:56.
Reason: ps added
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