i wonder if that stuffs anything like seimens putty. when we were building the almost 900 foot carbon fiber zumwalt class ddg1000 destroyers we used a lot of that stuff. hundreds and hundreds of tons of it, literally. the navy was/is in love with that ****. and i dont blame them. we would spend millions and millions to build scale models for testing purposes. we would load 20-30 foot tall balsa core carbon fiber deck houses that took over a year to build onto barges for the navy to take out into the gulf and try to destroy them. the results were extremely impressive!!! and we learned a lot. proved a lot of theories that our mad scientist came up with that the industry will still call bs. like the proven fact that quarter inch step backs in a layup are twice as strong and ten times less likely to delam than four inch step backs! same designs failed at 20 g shockloads when 13 mil stepbacks survived 40 g's which was the max they could go. but most guys brains cant accept that. but i worked with the team that invented the VARTM process, whats commonly known as vacuum bagging. these guys were determined to do what the industry said couldnt be done
sorry, im rambling. it was just so cool to be a part of that project. even as a worker bee. point was that the seimens putty we used was unbelievable. and i think like $2800 a pail. something stupid like that. but unbelievably easy to make. a coworker there worked for seimens and his job there was making the putty. navy wouldnt let us make it though, they funny that way. was basically peanut butter with hysol, 8084 and a couple other things mixed under vacuum??? i shoulda payed attention, or at least stole a bunch of **** when obama closed the yard down. truck load after truckload of materials went to the landfill
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