[DMCForum] bent impact absorbers, Re: Tech Session...(Joe O'Brien)

["twinenginedmc12" <twinenginedmc12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg.

When I tried smacking it without a solid connection between the 
aluminum and the anvil, with the foam in between, the foam did 
suffer.  I had to tape a few broken ends back up.  After I cut the 
notches in the foam, and put the anvil in direct contact with the 
aluminum bar, it went very well.  

I see that my post was too late to help Joe.  Sorry.

Rick.


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> Very interesting procedure.  Did your foam piece not crumble when 
you did
> this?  Mine is so brittle it falls apart when you touch it.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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> Subject: [DMCForum] bent impact absorbers, Re: Tech Session...(Joe
> O'Brien)
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Bent impact absorbers can be straightened.  I did this to mine.
> 
> 1.  Removed it from car
> 
> 2.  Cut notches in the foam near the ends, to allow placing the two
> ends of the aluminum tube part directly on top of a hard anvil, I
> think I used two stacks of bricks. Kept the cut-out pieces.
> 
> 3.  Smacked the aluminum part at the bend, with a sledgehammer
> several times, until the aluminum part was straight.  (I originally
> tried this without cutting the notches in (2.)  It didn't work.  The
> foam absorbed all the impact from the sledgehammer, surprise. )
> 
> 4.  Reinstalled the cut-out pieces of foam with glued and duct tape.
> 
> Other than the duct tape, you'd never know it had been bent.
> 
> Rick Gendreau
> 11472

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