Thread: Spray Foam Insulation for project.

Or just get a car with cup holders.

Good suggestions so far. I tend to let the wife handle arts & crafts things, which this is feeling more and more like lol. Anyway, more than three ways to skin a cat. More for my brain to chew on at the (hopefully) slow day at work tomorrow.

Originally Posted by 32t

Don't drink and drive. [soda or otherwise]

Pontiac's are cheap/easy to repalce. Find the part.

Maybe you've forgotten that Pontiac is now an extinct brand. Or at least mothballed until GM is flush with cash again, and decides to revive the sporty side of the name, at which point they will "start over" with a new car that is basically a watered down trans am...

Originally Posted by Crawler

Good suggestions so far. I tend to let the wife handle arts & crafts things, which this is feeling more and more like lol. Anyway, more than three ways to skin a cat. More for my brain to chew on at the (hopefully) slow day at work tomorrow.



Maybe you've forgotten that Pontiac is now an extinct brand. Or at least mothballed until GM is flush with cash again, and decides to revive the sporty side of the name, at which point they will "start over" with a new car that is basically a watered down trans am...

If the car is worth saving you can find the parts.


If not hold the can in your hand......

https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=...nsert+for+sale
05-07 PONTIAC G6 CENTER CONSOLE CUP HOLDER INSERT OEM
eBay
Although after a quick search it seems that there are other options.

Ah spray foam what fun,
Used it a lot in the boatyards as an apprentice for freezer walls insulation etc, also used it to fill tool boxes as practical jokes etc,
Yes cover everything with something disposable as yes it will stick like Sh!t on paper to everything ever made,
But it does easily dissolve and clean off with acetone and thinners

Best to use the 2 part version by hand if you can, as the preassure cans could spray your roof with a over zellist blast hitting the cup holder and bouncing back

It can easily be shaped and sanded as you like but wear a respirator as it is not good for you

All options are still on the table. I like to make informed decisions. To do so, I needed more information . This thread has afforded me a decent amount of progress towards that end.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

^^^^ What Shaun said

I just finished building a new pumphouse for the well and used the low expansion Great Stuff for insuring there were ZERO air leaks... Worked awesome
...

The low expansion stuff, did the final product have much much give to it once cured? Or was it more like Styrofoam than padding/cushion type foam?

Substance, you mentioned splash back from the canned stuff. I had forgotten about the joys of viscous fluids shot from aerosol cans. Fun stuff . My "adapt & overcome" intuition tells me an impromptu solution would be to make a cone/funnel out of some thick-ish paper to fit around the dispenser straw. This makeshift spray shield would, in theory, dramatically reduce collateral damage from splash back or over spray.

06 PONTIAC G6 CENTER CONSOLE CUP HOLDER | eBay
There are at least 5 on e-bay...
$20-$25

Originally Posted by Chevhead

06 PONTIAC G6 CENTER CONSOLE CUP HOLDER | eBay
There are at least 5 on e-bay...
$20-$25

Why wouldn't you?

The spray foam and your time to get it and fabricate something are probably worth more than $25. And you won't end up with something that looks like someone diarrheaed in your console.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Why wouldn't you?

The spray foam and your time to get it and fabricate something are probably worth more than $25. And you won't end up with something that looks like someone diarrheaed in your console.

Part of this is about saving a buck... or ten, in this case. And I work three, twelve hour shifts a week, paid like it's 40hrs, full time in a union shop, yadda yadda yadda; so I can usually get the wife to stop dragging me hither and yon running errands & goin to craft stores for at least a few hours on one of my four days off to toil away on something the flipside of my A.D.D. has had me fixated on. Long sentence short: I can spare the time to try to fabricate simple-ish things if it will be inexpensive to do so.

More importantly, it goes towards a nagging force driving me in the direction of self reliance, self sufficiency, and pulling handyman skills out of my arse.

Also, intellectual exercises like this are kinda fun to approach with outside the box problem solving skills. The wife even joins in organically, after an episode of The Walking Dead...

Maybe I'll scope out the mold making supplies when she drags me to the craft store tomorrow... cause let's face it, it's more than likely.

If I takes you feel better I need to fabricate a cooling system for my car, the one it has is failing miserably. It is a GM so I shouldn't hold my standards too high.