Foam for sponsons

[Duane Weathersby]

Im at a hault on my 45 rigger because I have builders block ......so to speak...... Where do you guys find foam thick enough so you dont have to glue it together? I bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 in thick pink closed cell insulation from Home Depot. I glued 4 pieces together with silicon so they would be thick enough to form one sponson. Im just curious if this is the norm or if you guys have any other suggestions. Resin eats it up and all the foam I find is to thin and would have to be glued regardless and they are not closed cell they are the flakey messy type foam that i cant imagine is what everyone is using. Please help me out here. Maybe I just havent hit the right store yet. Thanks, Duane

 

[Ray Sametz]

Google seach, Divinicell or Klegecell. Bought 2" Dow Highload 40 Blue foam at Marjam building supplies. B) B)

 

[Boris Mazor]

Im at a hault on my 45 rigger because I have builders block ......so to speak...... Where do you guys find foam thick enough so you dont have to glue it together? I bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 in thick pink closed cell insulation from Home Depot. I glued 4 pieces together with silicon so they would be thick enough to form one sponson. Im just curious if this is the norm or if you guys have any other suggestions. Resin eats it up and all the foam I find is to thin and would have to be glued regardless and they are not closed cell they are the flakey messy type foam that i cant imagine is what everyone is using. Please help me out here. Maybe I just havent hit the right store yet. Thanks, Duane

Some of Lowe’s have 2" 4 x8' sheets of pink foam. I use spray adhesive 777 for the pink foam. Fast Boris

 

[Duane Weathersby]

Thanks guys looks like i may try the 777 adhesive didnt even think of that duh.... Thanks Boris. Does it seem to hold up fairly well? Ray Im gonna order some of the foam you suggested for my next build thanks for the info.

 

[FloridaScaleBoater]

Find a place that deals in Dow Corning insulation foam

You can get it up to at least 4" thick, in 4'X8' sheets

 

[Milner]

Im at a hault on my 45 rigger because I have builders block ......so to speak...... Where do you guys find foam thick enough so you dont have to glue it together? I bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 in thick pink closed cell insulation from Home Depot. I glued 4 pieces together with silicon so they would be thick enough to form one sponson. Im just curious if this is the norm or if you guys have any other suggestions. Resin eats it up and all the foam I find is to thin and would have to be glued regardless and they are not closed cell they are the flakey messy type foam that i cant imagine is what everyone is using. Please help me out here. Maybe I just havent hit the right store yet. Thanks, Duane

BTW, EPOXY resin works fine for laminating foam sheets, but polyester resin does not (as you found out). I don't think I'd use polyester resin on ANY rigger parts.

 

[Bob Howard]

Im at a hault on my 45 rigger because I have builders block ......so to speak...... Where do you guys find foam thick enough so you dont have to glue it together? I bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 in thick pink closed cell insulation from Home Depot. I glued 4 pieces together with silicon so they would be thick enough to form one sponson. Im just curious if this is the norm or if you guys have any other suggestions. Resin eats it up and all the foam I find is to thin and would have to be glued regardless and they are not closed cell they are the flakey messy type foam that i cant imagine is what everyone is using. Please help me out here. Maybe I just havent hit the right store yet. Thanks, Duane

Some of Lowe’s have 2" 4 x8' sheets of pink foam. I use spray adhesive 777 for the pink foam. Fast Boris

the 3M 08074 trim spay adhesive works a little better than the 777 and wont seperate in hot weather.

Bob

 

[TomMoorehouse]

home depot should have 2" pink foam. thats what I use.

 

[What up Dog]

This is the Co. that Andy Brown get there foam from. DIAB Inc. the foam that you need is called H80 call Bob & he will point you to one of his sales Reps.

Bob Burda

Regional Sales Manager

DIAB Inc.

13202 NE 145th Ave

Brush Prairie,WA. 98606

Ph. 360 921-0881 Fax 360 604-1340

Or

Tonya Wright

Customer Service Representative

Diab, Inc. DeSoto, TX

(p)972-228-7613

(f) 972-224-9005

[email protected]

Brian

 

[taber]

Im at a hault on my 45 rigger because I have builders block ......so to speak...... Where do you guys find foam thick enough so you dont have to glue it together? I bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 in thick pink closed cell insulation from Home Depot. I glued 4 pieces together with silicon so they would be thick enough to form one sponson. Im just curious if this is the norm or if you guys have any other suggestions. Resin eats it up and all the foam I find is to thin and would have to be glued regardless and they are not closed cell they are the flakey messy type foam that i cant imagine is what everyone is using. Please help me out here. Maybe I just havent hit the right store yet. Thanks, Duane

Some of Lowe’s have 2" 4 x8' sheets of pink foam. I use spray adhesive 777 for the pink foam. Fast Boris

Do you glue the ply to the foam with 3m 77 ?