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Teh One Who Knocks
07-30-2019, 12:47 PM
Oddity Central


https://i.imgur.com/BWkYHVq.jpg

DELO, a small German company specializing in industrial adhesives, recently set a new Guinness Record after successfully suspending a 17-tonne-truck in the air for an hour using only super-strong glue.

In an attempt to show that it produces the world’s strongest adhesives, Bavaria-based company DELO set out to lift a 17.5 tonne truck one meter above ground using only 3 grams of a very strong glue developed specifically for this event. They used an industrial crane and four aluminum cylinders with a cover surface of of 3.5 cm (the diameter of a standard soda can) bonded to the wheels of the truck with a few drops of high-temperature-resistant DELO MONOPOX adhesive. The truck hung in the air for a full hour, thus breaking the previous record of 16.09 tonnes.

“We made it!” Sabine Herold, managing partner of DELO, said after the successful record-breaking attempt. “The great result is an absolute team success, which also shows how we work every day. We don’t shy away from challenges and we know our adhesives can live up to extremes.”

https://i.imgur.com/tLVijaT.jpg

DELO went into the challenge knowing that the record for world’s strongest glue had been broken seven times in 12 years, with the previous one dating back to 2013, when the German Aerospace Center managed to lift 16.09 tonnes using its own custom glue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGopYFTggEQ

The new world’s strongest glue is based on one-component, heat-curing epoxy resins used in the automotive industry and mechanical engineering. DELO claims that complex mechanisms like electric motors in electric cars would be inconceivable without these adhesives.

lost in melb.
07-30-2019, 04:21 PM
Germany :woot:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-30-2019, 04:29 PM
Imagine using that glue for a prank :shifty:

PorkChopSandwiches
07-30-2019, 04:36 PM
:shock:

Hal-9000
07-30-2019, 04:50 PM
Imagine using that glue for a prank :shifty:

The old toilet seat prank is now the old skin grafting prank :)

Teh One Who Knocks
07-30-2019, 04:58 PM
The old toilet seat prank is now the old skin grafting prank :)

It's like these super strong magnets we have dealt with here some times. Rare earth magnets can seriously cause injury if you aren't careful.

https://i.imgur.com/MzV2lvr.png

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/safety.asp

Hal-9000
07-30-2019, 05:00 PM
:shock:

Magnets used to be fun.

Teh One Who Knocks
07-30-2019, 05:07 PM
https://i.imgur.com/hAGx0rU.png

Look how many pounds of force there is with this magnet :lol:

Hal-9000
07-30-2019, 05:14 PM
I read on the other chart about getting fingers etc squished between two of them.

Fuck how horrible would that be? :lol: No one can pry them apart and you're just...being squished.

Question - How are magnets created?

Godfather
07-31-2019, 02:54 AM
https://i.imgur.com/hAGx0rU.png

Look how many pounds of force there is with this magnet :lol:

What are the logistics around shipping this stuff? What do they wrap it in to prevent it causing damage to everything?

I can just imagine the poor fedex guy opening the back of his truck, his perfectly organized shelves are in ruins, half the fucking packages are all hopelessly clung up to one tiny parcel. All he can see from the original package is a tiny portion of the label and it reads To: Lance. And from that day forward he swears he'll get his revenge.

Teh One Who Knocks
08-01-2019, 04:24 PM
What are the logistics around shipping this stuff? What do they wrap it in to prevent it causing damage to everything?

I can just imagine the poor fedex guy opening the back of his truck, his perfectly organized shelves are in ruins, half the fucking packages are all hopelessly clung up to one tiny parcel. All he can see from the original package is a tiny portion of the label and it reads To: Lance. And from that day forward he swears he'll get his revenge.

Godfather

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=shipping

Teh One Who Knocks
08-01-2019, 04:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSSLfrjAaPc