Your Correct. Part of my job here at Navy Surface Force, Atlantic, is to
investigate interesting things like this. Line-X, for example, besides
spray on
truck bedliners, has a pretty good Blast Mitigation Coating, which could be
sprayed on the inside bulkheads of ships.
The important thing, to best use your tax dollars, is to find a coating that
contains the blast, and is also better than paint at resisting corrosion in
a salt air environment. That way we can save big money in manpower and
material over the life of the ship by not having to chip and paint. If
testing shows
that the stuff will last inside water and fuel oil tanks, so much the
better!
I also look at new weapons, because its much better to kill the bad guys
first,
so there is no reason to test the capabilities of the blast resistant
coating!
Best Regards,
Jim
Chesapeake Va.
PS: roadster content:
I am almost ready to push the 510 station wagon out of the garage, which
will
give me the space to pull the engine and tranny out of SAKE RKT, and get her
back
on the road with a working 5spd.
>From: "Donna and Terry Cost" <tcost@hot.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Donna and Terry Cost" <tcost@hot.rr.com>
>To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: How to make an Armored Roadster
>Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:57:28 -0500
>
>I saw an interesting program on Cable TV this week. It started with the
>suicide bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, and during the
>program they discussed ways to place armor on buildings, cars, etc. A firm
>in
>California that makes spray-on pickup bedliners decided to test their
>yellow
>goop on cars, hadite (concrete) blocks, brick walls, and a variety of other
>surfaces. They dropped a treated block from 25 feet and all it did to the
>exterior of the block was dent a corner. The insides were fine gravel,
>but
>completely contained in the original shape. Spraying bedliner on the
>inside
>wall of a building greatly reduces the fragmentation effect of an
>explosive.
>Spraying it on a car "bulletproofs" the metal sides, depending on the
>thickness.
>
>Isn't it interesting that the American pickup truck is possibly the safest
>vehicle in the world? Drive-by shooting? hop in the bed of your pickup.
>Tornado? Tie yourself down in the bed. Fueding with families from nearby
>mountainous states? Let the wife drive while you use the pickup bed as a
>"bunker".
>
>On a serious note, there may be some merit in using Rhino-Liner as a
>"scattershield" for objects trying to enter the cockpit from underneath.
>It's
>not going to stop all the pieces of flywheel from a 10,000 RPM explosion,
>but
>it will slow them down, and it might completely stop objects with less
>kinetic
>energy. Andy will use the stuff in his E Mod Roadster, mostly for
>waterproofing, but there will also be the added armor protection.
>
>Leisure Suit Terry
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