Top delamination?
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Le Mans Master
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Top delamination?
Seeing the photos of C6s with the body panels missing leads me to question whether these tops are delaminating!
The assembly doesn't in any way look 'laminated' in the usual sense of the word. Two pieces are just tacked together with adhesive at the corners.
Lamination implies full contact, heat, pressure, and adhesive....if they actually laminated these panels they might not have failed?
just my observations and opinions
The assembly doesn't in any way look 'laminated' in the usual sense of the word. Two pieces are just tacked together with adhesive at the corners.
Lamination implies full contact, heat, pressure, and adhesive....if they actually laminated these panels they might not have failed?
just my observations and opinions
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Originally Posted by OregonC6
The assembly doesn't in any way look 'laminated' in the usual sense of the word. Two pieces are just tacked together with adhesive at the corners.
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No doubt it's hasn't been done right whatever it is.
Laminate (verb) usually means sticking layers of something together. Heat and pressure aren't required to meet the definition. That nipick aside, I agree that they aren't laminated by common definitions.
Bonded or glued would be better descriptions since they are only glued in two rows around the edges.
Laminate (verb) usually means sticking layers of something together. Heat and pressure aren't required to meet the definition. That nipick aside, I agree that they aren't laminated by common definitions.
Bonded or glued would be better descriptions since they are only glued in two rows around the edges.
