VHB Foamed Acrylic Tapes
Characteristics, Features and Benefits:
- Excellent load-bearing capability
- Excellent high performance capability
- Resilient performance in all weather conditions
- Bonds to a wide variety of substrates
- Load and stress is spread across the plane of the bond, there are no stress points that arise as with mechanical fixings
- Stops metal fatigue and mechanical degradation that you get with fixings such as screws, nuts and bolts
- Properties such as vibration, dampening, shock, absorption, sealing, thermal expansion and contraction take up conformability Excellent load-bearing capability
- Aesthetic enhancement, no screw heads are visible. Invisible fixing and bonding
- Reduces re-finishing work, touching-up and clean up time required with other forms of bonding/fixing
- Quick to use, clean, safe and economic – improves productivity
- No need to damage substrates to be bonded – no mechanical fixing, punctures or holes. Helps stop rusting – complete seal can be achieved
- When replacing spot welding there is no distortion of the sheet metal. No welding bead needs to be ground down.
Vhb Solves Problems
Aesthetics:
- Unsightly fasteners (rivets)
- Clean bond specified (designer / architect)
- “cheap” sounding / noisy
Durability:
- Holes place for corrosion
- Fatigue failure
- Environmental / solvent exposure
High Assembly / Design Cost:
- Many holes to drill
- Finishing after assembly
- High Labour skill level
- Fixturing / cure time required
- Two components required (gasket / fastener)
Material Limitations:
- Galvanic corrosion (metals)
- Differential thermal expansion
- Thicker than required
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