OT: Rhino Linings - tougher than you think

Black_Knyght · #1 June 19th, 2006, 11:01 AM

I saw a demonstration of this, and it took my breath away. This stuff is incredibly tough, and really a damn good idea. It was stunningly effective.

U.S. Military Goes to War With the #1 Sprayed-on Liner, Rhino Linings

Bedliner companies start getting defensive

Renegade 13 · #2 June 19th, 2006, 02:43 PM

Sounds like some tough stuff.

rdouglass · #3 June 19th, 2006, 03:14 PM

I once had a truck with that stuff in the bed liner and a cast iron tub fell from at least 3 feet above it and hit the bed. The truck bed was quite dented but the rhino liner was no worse for it. Still was waterproof, solvent proof, etc.

It really is incredible stuff and with a sprayed on application, they can put it almost anywhere.

Santiago · #4 June 19th, 2006, 10:41 PM

Ny brother has this in his truck bed, its really good. I seen an article a few weeks ago that the manufacturers are testing it on using it for armor ie humvees as it appears to drastically reduce shrapnel (pun unintended lol) damage

Kamog · #5 June 20th, 2006, 01:40 AM

They should make shoes out of the stuff. My shoes keep wearing out and it would nice to have shoes that last more than a few months.

Renegade 13 · #6 June 20th, 2006, 03:01 AM

Try some leather steel-toed boots. They never wear out...and make a great defensive weapon.

Black_Knyght · #7 June 21st, 2006, 02:46 AM

In the demonstration I was invited to attend, they placed a car LOADED with explosives equidistant between two small cinder block buildings, roughly 20 feet away from each. Of course, one was sprayed and one wasn't. They detonated the explosives, COMPLETELY obliterating the vehicle and leaving a respectable crater. The sprayed building bulged inward, and the bricks lost their mortar, but it remained intact!!!. The opposite building was nothing more that small fragments of cinder block, steel, and wood.

Having been to the first Iraqi conflict, and having seen the effects of IED's with my own eyes, I gotta tell ya I was DAMNED impressed !!!

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 June 22nd, 2006, 01:10 AM

...This is how you know you're in the future - Spray-on armor...

Black_Knyght · #9 June 22nd, 2006, 04:29 AM

In the second half of this demonstration, they fired an AK-47 assault rifle at a tanker truck filled with water, but sprayed outside by the Lining material. A ten second burst, all impacting and penetrating.

NOT ONE DAMN LEAK !!!

This stuff even sealed itself over the bullet holes...

narf poit chez BOOM · #10 June 22nd, 2006, 07:49 PM

...Sure this isn't a hoax?