[Elecraft] OT: Looking for some foam.

[Rob Locher W7GH]

I have dealt with FoamByMail.com, and I recommend them.  Their customer  
service is quite good.

Here are the largely-irrelevant background details:

At the time I needed a shipping case for a 20 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain  
telescope.  There are companies out there that make custom cases, but they  
are horrendously expensive.  I searched the web and found an article  
describing exactly what I needed; the article also recommended  
FoamByMail.com.  The original article is offline, but I found the version  
preserved by archive.org's Wayback Machine, which unfortunately doesn't  
have the pictures:

http://tinyurl.com/yhl3mw

Following the article's recommendations, I took a plastic container the  
size of a steamer trunk and carefully cut and hot-glued several thick  
closed-cell foam slices to hold the telescope.

To return to the current discussion -- an alternative to the prescored  
foam could be to use a technique similar to the one I used.  To be more  
specific, some wide closed-cell foam could be cut into slices, carved as  
necessary, and then glued or hot-glued together to form the shape required.

By the way, my homemade telescope case works very well.  However the hot  
glue over two years has ceased to hold in several places.  I will probably  
reglue with some other glue, perhaps epoxy or Gorilla Glue.  The hot glue  
was useful however, because it worked well enough for a few months, and  
allowed me to prove the concept without being too permanent.

73,
- Rob W7GH
K2 #5004



On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:35:41 -0700, Larry <claylj at gmail.com> wrote:

> A quick google search got http://www.foambymail.com. Click on Packaging  
> Foam on the left and I think you will find exactly what you are looking  
> for.
>
> Larry, KB5DXY
> K1 #2269