Was it Jerry Brown or John Kerry that was going to do the campaign tour in
a Vanagon?  Maybe they could use the stuff.

DM&FS

t 11:35 AM 4/17/2004, John Klun wrote:
>Yeah! John and  all!
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>If we could get a light shade of tinting and the tape:
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>Here in CO  it could prevent the dreaded 'Colorado Windshields' caused
>by the state's usage of what look like cinders spread across roads and
>highways in the winter.
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>Easy way of fixing minor dents in Vanagon 'Hard' bodies...
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>Temporary fixes for hoses...
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>Lens coverings for head lights.  You'd be amazed at how many times a
>rock will crack a sealed beam headlight.
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>Cover the entire front and rear ends of our Vans in case of rear enders...
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>John Rodgers wrote:
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>>My son runs a window tinting business and does commecial and military
>>contracts. On one recent military contract he installed bomb-blast proof
>>window tint on some  military buildings. The plastic film that was used
>>will stop a 45 caliber bullet fired from ten feet away. Thg glass under
>>the film will fracture, but the film - like all tint films - is glued to
>>the surface of the glass and holds the glass together to prevent glass
>>shards from becoming shrapnel and flying  everywhere  hurting people and
>>causing other damage. To prevent the entire pane of glass from coming
>>out of the frame during a blast and flying across a room like a frisbie
>>and cutting off heads, the edges of the tint are sealed to the window
>>frame with a 3M industrial tape that has a glue strength and fabric
>>strength like nothing I have ever seen. Amazing stuff!!! This tape in
>>this application is two inches wide - 1 inch over the tint film, and one
>>inch over the window frame. It is heated to 400 degrees to trigger
>>curing. Once cured, the window frame, the tape and the tint are all like
>>one continuous piece, and a blast would virtually have to blow the
>>window frame out of the wall to  damage the area on the opposite side of
>>the glass. The main point being though, to control flying glass.
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>>So, anyone see any application for this tape on the Vanagons?
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>>Regards,
>>
>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL Driver