Floatation Foam

[Iggmon72]

Good day to all. I had a question as I cant locate Floatation Foam. Who carries and sales some blue or pink foam? Or is this not what I should be looking for? Thank you.

[toppack]

If you want to find some local, I would check phonebook for packing supplies or boat repair shops (full scale). If you only need a small piece they may just give you a scrap piece. Flower shops also sell small pieces of closed cell foam.
Here in Dallas there are foam supply stores.
I've always got the blue, mainly because it's easier to find. :)

Where are you located?
If you're in the Outback, you may need to do an Internet search, but shipping is the killer that way. ;)

[Kazzer]

Try Home Depot or Lowes. They sell blue and pink foam for house insulation.

[Nuke Power]

yup lowes and home depot. They sell it in huge sheets cant go wrong.

[toppack]

We never did find out where 'Iggmon' is Located ???
We have to remember that Home Depot or Lowes are not everywhere in the World and this is WWW (World Wide Web). :)

[Nuke Power]

ahh but you did say this is the WWW and both have online stores or any equivalant home building supply store.

[toppack]

Sorry, I checked both HomeDepot and Lowes websites, but could Not find that type foam sheet for sale at either. Some other websites probably do but it appears that those, that Mike suggested, do not. :o

[Kazzer]

I am working on a mold to make a custom fit foam to go inside the ballast tanks on the VII. This is a pourable expanding 6lb foam, which will be shaped exactly to the hull. If it is successful, I anticipate making more molds for different models.

[Nuke Power]

Not a bad Idea just need to make sure you leave room In those saddles. How far ave you gotten with that one?

[Kazzer]

The master mold is made, I just have to pluck up the courage to pour the resin in and make the actual mold! Maybe later this week.

[Nuke Power]

Courage is for women. Gather your balls and do it!

[toppack]

Courage is for women. Gather your balls and do it!

:D LOL :D
Spoken like a True Submariner. :D

[Kazzer]

Courage is for women. Gather your balls and do it!

Its cold enough here to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, so I warmed up the resin a little. Big mistake - ten minutes after pouring it 1" thick into the mold it almost caught fire with exothermic reaction. I managed to retrieve the mold.

Now, if I can find those balls, I'll give it another shot today.

[Nuke Power]

That is awsome! Ive never heard of anyone warming the resin before. I believe someone even said just let it come to temperature on another board.

Mike do you even know where the phrase "freezing the balls off a brass monkey" comes from.

[Kazzer]

The resin was pretty thick and I normally get it to 85-90 degrees to make it runny, then it pours into my molds easily. But this time it was 2 quarts of material. No big deal, I added sand to it to make the mold and that mixed in well and then cooled it back down. Not a problem.

A Brass Monkey was a tripod of steel rods with large brass balls on the ends of the rods. Red hot cannon balls would be placed onto the tripod waiting for the gunners to reload the cannons. In very cold weather, the balls would lose their grip on the steel rod and fall off. Hence the phrase. All part of the lecture on the tour of HMS Victory. (My grandfather was stationed there and I have his photo with his cap band saying HMS Victory.)