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Cue the obligatory "Then why don't they build the entire plane out of that glue?"
by adwn 7y ago
Cue the obligatory "Then why don't they build the entire plane out of that glue?"
- chrismorgan 7y agoVarious reasons. Chemical bond glues are only strong if there’s something for them to bond to; it’s expensive glue; it’d be much harder to make the entire plane out of that stuff, especially given the desired tolerances; sometimes it has other problems that make it unsuitable, e.g. how it reacts to environmental conditions it’s exposed to; it’d look and sound silly…
- elil17 7y agoI mean, they kind of do. That's what carbon composite is, in a way: thin strands of carbon held together in a mass of resin (glue).