HA3 car body?

[CiTY]

Hey, just a thought.
What do you think of a Natural HA3 car body?
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[code09]

I think it would be interesting for sure /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Wouldnt have to worry about other ppl scratching your car as much i guess...but the colors might not match

 

[Argetni]

And the damn tiger stripes...

 

[BlindedByTheLite]

i've never seen waxed and buffed HA3 b4. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinser2.gif

 

[Rothrandir]

titanium carbonitride anyone?

there have got to be some other great options out there!

in fact, if anyone's willing to start a fund i'd be willing to do my part to personally test something of this nature /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[PhotonBoy]

I'm not any sort of materials scientist or anything, but I think the ultra-hard anodizing would be very brittle. This is fine on something that's small and doesn't flex much, but it might be a big problem with relatively large sections of sheet metal where the metal would be subject to flexing. I can see the anodizing cracking, with fissures opening and exposing the underlying metal to corrosion from road salt, etc.

 

[Lynx_Arc]

Not to mention you probably couldn't make hard anodizing work well without a certain thickness possibly making the car heavier and one accident would make you cringe because no insurance company would want to pay for it to be redone/replaced.

 

[B@rt]

My recumbent has a mostly anoed frame (normal, no HA) and it holds up pretty well. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif It is a lot smaller than a car though, and much more rigid. It would be interesting to see what HA does on more flexible surfaces.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/popcorn.gif

 

[CPFMan]

Nice thought...but I think it wouldn't work. Can't stick to steel. Unless the car is made out of alum. Ain't as shiny as the "real thing baby" no pun intended.

 

[Ny0ng1]

Land Rovers is the first thing came up in my mind when i read this topic

 

[IsaacHayes]

What about Boyd's AllumaTub? Anodize that some wild color!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif