Well, we have talked about this a number of times, can "gluing" panels on a car possibly be as strong as welding it on. Well, my 10 year olds science project may have the answer!

He cut 12 pieces of 20 gauge steel. We then welded them together in pairs. We butt welded with the MIG, "plug welded" with the MIG, spot welded with a $20,000 ProSpot STRSW and drilled 1/4" holes and bolted two as well. We then bonded with Winzer Universal Panel bonding adhesive another piece of metal to each of the pairs of welded and bolted sets.

We put clamps on them and pulled them apart using the Chief frame rack at work (10 year old boys love destroying things, don't they?).

Here are the results, the glue won every single time! Pretty impressive I would say.

Brian