Thread: Spray Foam Insulation for project.

I would not use spray foam for that job. It is not really going to do what you want. Ideally you would mix up some latex for making moulds. I would expect it to be available at large craft stores. My second choice would be silicone.

^^^^ 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

There is simply no way I would get it near any type of cloth/leather/vinyl it just does NOT come off it is goes anywhere like that.. ask my jeans and shirt


Yeah I would go a latex rubber instead for molding

I'm with Glen, nothing other than a liquid rubber type deal.

My other suggestion would be, search out a leather/plastic automotive repair outfit.... they have all kinds of leather/vinyl/silicon stuff available to them.... I'd be shocked if they didn't have what you need and the know how to make it happen.


Regards

Kaptain "Without the proper release agent.... you are screwed" Zero

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
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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.

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Originally Posted by Chevhead

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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.