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Alright guys, I was covering my wings today and I decided to have a little fun and do a test on the glue since it seemed pretty darn strong to me. So today I had some left over glue and some left over 2" Ceconite 102 pinked tapes. I decided to do a 1" glue lap joint and then see how strong the glued lap joint is. This glue joint was glued only 2 hours prior to the test so you can see how strong the joint nearly right after you glue it.
In order to have a straight pull on the tapes I sandwiched a full wrap around two pieces of 1 by 2 with 3 dry wall screws through the wood 1 of which went through the fabric. I did this on both sides, and then clamped it to my house beam in my basement. Turns out a 2" tape with a 1" lap joint makes a darn good pull up bar for a 148 lb person! The popping noise you hear is the fabric slipping through the screws not the glue joint. Pretty freaking strong stuff Eko bond is. I know you can't see my feet off the ground but trust me I did several pull ups.
here is the video to prove it. [ame="http://youtu.be/ov7_kgRjOqM"]http://youtu.be/ov7_kgRjOqM[/ame]
BTW I decided after I made the video to do some more pull ups on the fabric the test article eventually broke but it was only at the fabric near the wood sandwich.
Edited by: acropilotbret
