Working with Foam

**Megalomaniac** · 12-11-2006, 11:08 PM

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**shotgunefx** · 12-12-2006, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Yevmeister

Dakar m3

if you don't want to drop too much money into quality stuff i suggest starting with florist foam, it's cheap, and very easy to shape, you can get it in any craft store

here is some pics from fiberglassforums

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Get the ***** out, that is awesome work. Never would have occured to me to even attempt that with floral.

As far as working with wax (it's been awhile since I bought a 55lb block of polycrystalline wax ), I wonder if you could smooth the surface of tooling marks with a careful application of a heatgun.

**Yevmeister** · 12-12-2006, 12:21 PM

well, there are many options out there

i haven't tried heat gun, but floral foam is heat resistant, so it wouldn't melt during the fiberglass cure.

othet than that you can shape that foam with your fingers, they come in different strenghts, from lighter green being softers, to a darker green being denser.

Yev

**michaudtime** · 12-13-2006, 10:27 AM

Wow that's a great foam made bumper... where did you get those pix?

**GoHybrid** · 12-13-2006, 02:13 PM

i'd be more concerned about the solvents melting the foam than the heat...

**shotgunefx** · 12-13-2006, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by GoHybrid

i'd be more concerned about the solvents melting the foam than the heat...

I was refering to smoothing wax of minor tool marks with the heat comment.

**GoHybrid** · 12-13-2006, 02:44 PM

i was referring to the using fiberglass over floral foam comment.

**shotgunefx** · 12-13-2006, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by GoHybrid

i was referring to the using fiberglass over floral foam comment.

I know, but I believe that was a reply to my reply LOL

**GoHybrid** · 12-13-2006, 10:05 PM

.... and that's all i got to say 'bout that.

**shotgunefx** · 12-14-2006, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by GoHybrid

.... and that's all i got to say 'bout that.

Suppose that didn't really clarify things, thought Yevmeister was misreading my heatgun comment about wax and thinking I meant foam, then you replied to Yevmeister, and I was just saying, I was talking about wax.

Make sense? Me niether