Hail resistant steel
Hail resistant steel
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Is there a minimum gauge thickness that can be relied upon to resist denting by hail. I am thinking about 1" diameter as a maximum.
I searched but most posts are requests for advice on how to fix the dent after it happens. Others are about the Romans ("Hail Caesar").
I searched but most posts are requests for advice on how to fix the dent after it happens. Others are about the Romans ("Hail Caesar").





RE: Hail resistant steel
Any car made before 1940 should be satisfactory.
Since that date, for a variety of reasons, cars have gotten lighter and thinner and less curvy, and less hail resistant.
I suppose you could apply a skin of fiberglass and resin. Get some black-dyed fiberglass cloth and the rubes will think it's carbon fiber and think you're a racer.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Hail resistant steel
Obviously you could go to a 500 N mm-2 steel, but I'm guessing the resulting panels would be pretty ugly.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Hail resistant steel
We aren't making autobody panels so there are no convoluted designs to stamp. We will be designing panels that will sit on roof tops but the client has specified that the panels should be hail resistant. The shapes will be built up from rectangles and triangles.
RE: Hail resistant steel
Or thick aluminium.
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Greg Locock
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RE: Hail resistant steel
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RE: Hail resistant steel
Covering everything with, e.g. bar grate, will make it hail resistant by most any measure.
... but that brings up a point; How does the customer define 'hail resistant'?
E.g. properly applied urethane paint will still protect the surface even when the surface is dented; would that be sufficient?
Or is the customer willing to pay for armorplate?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA