anyone know anything about TUFNOL?

[Agi-Smash]

I would agree with tufnol, pretty good compressive strength but crap in tension, early wessex v6 engines used tufnol for the, if i remember rightly, the timing gear off the crank. Ran fairly quiet but had a tendancy to give break teeth off if you put a lumpy cam in.

[peatff]

There is a version made of Polyester resin and various kinds of materials such as canvas and denim compressed into slabs. It is called Micarta and is used to make knife handles, looks very effective when done properly.

[H-A]

 

No I hate cricket.

 

H-A

[agrimog]

theres about 20 different types of tufnol, called brands, depends on the use what the makeup is was very popular as an insulator before plastics became so abundant, also as wear strips, spacers and bearing bits, largly been replaced now, but still pops up in some strange places, be carefull of the dusts as some of the glues and resins are formaldahyde based, google whale brand or swan brand tufnoll, but theres many more

[se7enthdevil]

it appears to be whale brand tufnol which is ridiculously expensive stuff.

 

one sheet of 2" x 4' square is £1929 so goodness knows what they'd charge for 4" which is what the original blocks thickness was.