Anthony Collova 10+ year member
CarAudio.com Elite
If you guys are familiar with our line of sound deadening products you know that we sell Spectrum and Sludge.
Same exact product until the activator is added in which case the Spectrum thickness up from a viscosity of chocolate syrup to peanut butter and no long is sprayable with our undercoating gun.
In the process of developing our new bed liner we have come across some very interesting additives and fillers.
One of the additives is a long strand rubber that can be used as a basket weave in the coating. This will add tensile strength with improved elongation and surface area.
Basically it is little rubber strands that are like a bunch of little pieces of chopped up spaghetti that grab on to one antoehr and increase the strength of the coating by as much as 400%
Right now we use 2 different rubber powders. These would be removed and so would the mineral filler so that we could make room for the rubber. What is nice is that the rubber has an oil absorption rate of zero so we can add a ton of it to the resin without worrying about it cracking or separating.
This means that there will be a higher resin count, a higher rubber count, and it will be much stronger than the regular Sludge product.
Only down side is that the cost might go up about 15% or so.
Would you guys like to see something like this come to market?
ANT
Same exact product until the activator is added in which case the Spectrum thickness up from a viscosity of chocolate syrup to peanut butter and no long is sprayable with our undercoating gun.
In the process of developing our new bed liner we have come across some very interesting additives and fillers.
One of the additives is a long strand rubber that can be used as a basket weave in the coating. This will add tensile strength with improved elongation and surface area.
Basically it is little rubber strands that are like a bunch of little pieces of chopped up spaghetti that grab on to one antoehr and increase the strength of the coating by as much as 400%
Right now we use 2 different rubber powders. These would be removed and so would the mineral filler so that we could make room for the rubber. What is nice is that the rubber has an oil absorption rate of zero so we can add a ton of it to the resin without worrying about it cracking or separating.
This means that there will be a higher resin count, a higher rubber count, and it will be much stronger than the regular Sludge product.
Only down side is that the cost might go up about 15% or so.
Would you guys like to see something like this come to market?
ANT
