Dan302 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Quite interesting rob88h, overrun, BlankFrank and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Good effort lads, alas. Dan302 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Two million of them, all rusted away. That saline spray - direct from the salt mines under Longbridge - worked well. Dan302 and HillmanImp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Moving deckchairs on the titanic.... Dan302, Isopon, twosmoke300 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 They were rust proofed? warch and twosmoke300 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanciaman Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 That'll be a short video then. Is it a still photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 And as for how well it worked... see here. (I've set the video start time at the appropriate point so that you don't have to listen to more Quentin Wilson than necessary...) Dan302 and Isopon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warch Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 In that bit near the end where he drives the Metro in the Corrosion Test Humidity Chamber, I was hoping for a sight gag where he comes back out on foot carrying a steering wheel fifteen minutes later. I remember when I went to university in Wales on a wet day (i.e. nearly all of them) you could actually hear my Mini corroding. Dan302 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 The guy spraying the wax into the box sections was not exactly generous with the stuff. warch, Dan302 and UltraWomble 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 It seems like they had the right idea with most of that, but applying seam sealer by hand doesn’t look like a repeatable process. They were leaving gaps in them and the sealant wasn’t going right to the edge so plenty of places for corrosion to start. I’ve done some accelerated corrosion testing at work and it’s really interesting to see how different materials go. We use a salt water solution and one of those aquarium pumps to oxygenate the water, takes about 48 hours for a component to start to corrode and if it passes a week in the test, it’s going to be safe for 25 years in service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 They did look into alternatives; not a lot of people know about these. And as a driver of an Aluminium Bodied car, it certainly is an elegant if expensive solution... https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/aluminium-metro/ Dan302 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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