Permabond manufactures a variety of specialty vehicle adhesives and sealants. Whether you are puttering in a golf cart or kicking up dust on a dirt bike, it is likely Permabond had a hand in manufacturing your ride. Permabond’s diverse line of products provides solutions for bonding and sealing substrates found on the exterior of vehicles, under the hood, and in the interior.
There are many reasons to choose adhesives over mechanical fasteners when manufacturing specialty vehicles. Adhesives, as opposed to fasteners, provide increased strength, weight reduction, reduced costs, and increased stress distribution. Moreover, they help ensure an improved manufacturing process, increased vibration resistance, corrosion prevention, and the ability to design with a wider choice of substrate materials. It’s really therefore a no-brainer to choose adhesives over fasteners in this field.
Typical applications for adhesives in this industry:
Bonding
Sealing
Potting
Threadlocking
Thread Sealing
Retaining
Form in Place Gasketing
Structural Bonding
Seam Sealing
Weld Sealing
Bonding Noise Reduction Materials in Cabin
And many more!
Key Features
Below we list some key specialty vehicle manufacturing functions that adhesives can help with.
Plastic Bonding
Many plastics used in this industry are difficult to bond with standard adhesives. Permabond TA4610, on the other hand, forms strong bonds to polypropylene and polyethylene.
Threadlocking
Threadlocking anaerobic adhesives and sealants lock screws, nuts, bolts, and studs against loosening. Furthermore, they lubricate to ease assembly, prevent corrosion, seal as well as lock, and provide controlled off torque with varying strengths to meet removable and permanent requirements. Threadlockers are also more cost-effective than mechanical locking devices.
Thread Sealing
Threadsealing anaerobic adhesive sealants cure to a durable seal that will not shred, creep, or relax over time. Grades are available for water, gas, air, and hydraulic systems.
Retaining
Anaerobic retaining compounds augment slip fits, prevent corrosion, provide 100% unitizing contact to reduce machine tolerances, as well as allowing for 5 times greater load-carrying capacity.
Form-in-Place Gasketing
Anaerobic adhesive form-in-place gaskets replace traditional cork, wood, rubber, paper, and silicone gaskets. What’s more, they don’t become brittle or shrink over time, are easy to dismantle with normal tools, and even seal rough surfaces without shimming.
Further Uses:
Structural Bonding
Structural bonding of brackets, housings, and other structural components is readily achieved with epoxy or structural acrylic adhesive. This results in strong, durable bonds that distribute stress throughout the bond area, avoiding fatigue at fastener sites.
Rubber Bonding
Cyanoacrylate adhesives provide a fast, effective solution to bonding rubber door bumpers and step treads.
Open seams are quickly sealed with 2 component epoxy adhesive.
Weld Sealing
Weld seam sealing is fast and easy with low viscosity anaerobic adhesive sealant HL126.
Bonding Noise Reduction Materials in Cabin
Several types of adhesives including cyanoacrylates, acrylics, and MMAs are commonly used to bond noise reduction foams within the interior of the cabin.
