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

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try replacing the foam with some of that viscoelastic memory foam....
In a collision it will softly form to the other guys bumper,
and then it will go back to it's original shape!
Then you can pick your bumper up off the ground and use it for
a pillow and take a nap while your waiting on the ambulance.
- VB

>From: "twinenginedmc12" <twinenginedmc12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [DMCForum] bent impact absorbers, Re: Tech Session...(Joe O'Brien)
>Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:47:15 -0000
>
>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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of twinenginedmc12
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:14 AM
> > To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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