foam for floating sliders

karkid · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 327 City: Tempe

just thought of something when buying stuff for fiberglassing

have any of you thoguht of using two part foam for your floats

it is a two part chemical, you mix them, and voila, the liquids turn into a carvable foam 20 times its size, its pretty cool stuff and i just thought of what a great product it would be for making sliders

http://www.shopmaninc.com/foam.html

Joey1027 · Posted: Nov 08, 2004 4:45 am Post subject:

You cuold go to your local car wash and get big 55gallon drums/barrels for free. Go to like the big car wash place not the gas station one and ask if you could have a few of them. They'll give them to you because they have to pay to have them taken away so....

colefooter · Posted: Nov 08, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject:

karkid, that could be a great idea, since its pourable you could just pour it into the slider so its all even and stuff. Only problem is that its much more expensive than what most people do with the big drums from the good ole car wash..

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Nov 09, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

that works good

a friend of mine used that for a portable slider and it worked great

kananumpua · Newbie Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 34

That idea is simply brilliant. I had actually thought about it but i didn't think if could be used for floating. But hey if you guys say it works then i'm down cause that is hellovalot cheaper than what i used. How many pounds can 1 ft^3 of this stuff soundly hold.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Jan 13, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

or you can just bloe torch the normal foam and melt it into a smaller container if you want it portable

79nawteak · Addict Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 691 City: Kannapolis

How can you get the drums from a cash wash. Is that what the car wash stuff comes in or something

wkbrdr · Posted: May 27, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

car washes get all there soap in 55 gallon drums or 30 gallon...

i went to home depot and they have 2" think styrofoam, im useing like 6 inchs under my kicker, im going to do a whole post on it...