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Originally posted by RBlack:
Saw a Haulmark coach in Salt Lake City yesterday, what a beauty!!! Probably the only Manf. coach in Utah. It had Alum. skin and was very smooth and very stiff. Is it directly mounted on to the steel fram with the 3M mounting tape or is it back with something? Rich
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RBlack
on our Pete we plan to use .095" aluminum sheets bonded to the steel structure with UHB 3M tape.
the bare aluminum sheets will be powdercoated after "dry" fitting them to the steel structure and doing all the needed cutouts and drilling.
for a strong bond the steel has to be perfect clean: freshly sanded and cleaned with 3M surface prep cleaner.
the 3M is very expensive (good thing our toter is only 12.5' long
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