TB 9-2300-258-30
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY TECHNICAL BULLETIN
EPOXY PLASTIC AUTOMOTIVE BODY REPAIR:
ALL WHEELED VEHICLES
Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington 25, D.C.
25 October 1962
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GENERAL
Purpose .......................................................................................................
Scope ..........................................................................................................
General........................................................................................................
PROCEDURE
Prepare the surface.....................................................................................
Preparing epoxy plastic ...............................................................................
Preheat surface area...................................................................................
Application of epoxy plastic .........................................................................
Cure the repair ............................................................................................
Rough finish after curing .............................................................................
Final metal finish .........................................................................................
Area clean up ..............................................................................................
Painting........................................................................................................
Additional uses ............................................................................................
Supply..........................................................................................................
SECTION I
GENERAL
plastic is especially applicable to repairs of double-wall
1. Purpose. This bulletin provides Ordnance metal
bodies such as
body repairmen with instructions and procedures in using
ambulances and the numerous van-type vehicles and
Epoxy Plastic Auto-body Type I, Repair Kit, FSN 8010-
trailers because no open flame is necessary. Heat
615-5370.
lamps may be used.
c. Epoxy plastic should not be confused with
2. Scope. a. Use of plastics for repairs of
autobody glazing putties.
damaged automotive bodies and fenders has largely
d. Epoxy resin paste is a compound with filler
superseded previous practices.
material and is readily mixed with hardener paste. The
b. Epoxy plastic-type adhesives are suitable for
resin paste is one color, the hardener another, and when
repairs of automotive bodies and fenders as well as
thoroughly mixed together will blend into one color
aluminum, magnesium and stainless steel items. Epoxy
indicating materials have been thoroughly mixed.
TAGO 6810-A-650576 October-62
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