Found Foam

Lucky dog! :-) Should work great!

Rick

Good find!

Greybeard

Dana=A0Miller wrote: We hit the foam mother load!!

----------------------------------------------- Wow! What'll you do with the money you saved. Dana?

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

SNIPS

There is a group called rec.woodworking. On that group there is a tradition of folks who have found great deals on wood for projects posting a report which is almost uniformly headed by a subject line: "Gloat: I found xxxxxx ".

Those "Gloat" posts generate some really funny replies, all "tongue-in-cheek" envios, that start with the phrase: "You su*k".

For model.railroading, you have retired the "Gloat" category.

-- Jim McLaughlin

Please don't just hit the reply key. Remove the obvious from the address to reply.

Rebuilt Engine for the car:-(. How many dumpsters will I have to dive for to pay for that.

Oh, yeah, This Fry's Electronics is located just north of 96th St. in Fishers Indiana. Mapquest Link

The dumpster is still mostly full.

I read the "Wreck" (rrq.woodworking). My Table Saw, Radial Arm Saw, Shop Vac, and Drill Press are buried behind the mound of pink foam. this is gonna put a BIG hurt on my wood working tasks for SWMBO. I held the camera over my head so the pile looks smaller than real life.

Lesson learned. Keep an eye out for "Big Box Store" type buildings being renovated or demoed. I'm assuming this mother load came off of the roof somewhere where they were cutting in new air handling or some such. Anybody know an easy way to make a hot wire foam cutter?:-) I've been experimenting in shaping and landscaping with this stuff. I'm kinda shy about gluing the track down to this. Is there a way to nail or tack it down? Can glued down track be easily removed?

That is definitely a great haul!!

On my son's model railroad, I first tacked the track directly to the foam, but the nails tended to pull out. While 'freshening' the scenery, I inadvertently oversprayed the track with the same 50/50 white glue and discovered the next day that it was nicely fixed to the foam (painted yet).

The thought did occur to me that it may be permanent, however one day when Philippe was helping clean the rails, he spilled some of the methyl hydrate and it quickly released the track. Noted that and went on. Later that day, I prepared to re-glue that section and it was already fixed in place again after the alcohol evaporated. With ballast, though; it could be messy.......;0)

Ian Mathers Yellowknife, NT

Methyl Hydrate stumped me for a while. Googled for the answer. Known also as Wood or Methyl Alcohol. I looked up the MSDS for same. Not nice stuff.

Toxic by inhalation, ingestion or skin absorption. May be a reproductive hazard. Ingestion may be fatal. Risk of very serious, irreversible damage if swallowed. Exposure may cause eye, kidney, heart and liver damage. Chronic or substantial acute exposure may cause serious eye damage, including blindness. Irritant. Narcotic. UK exposure limits: long-term 200 ppm, short term 250 ppm.

Lets find another solvent for the kids to work with.

I've foundered onto another issue. I've been gleefully laying down the big pink stuff to build up the subroadbed and landscaping surface. I found that I could "bulk up" my layout dimensions by having the foam over the edges of my 4' x 2', 4', & 8' plywood bases. I think I can safely hang over by 8" all round. That turns a tight 4' wide space into a much more comfortable 5'-5'6" span My previous layout was limited to mostly 18" radius curves . I think I can switch over to 22" min radius on the mainline if not more now. I was laying out some arcs on the foam to visualize the curves. 1st mistake. I used a sharpie permanent pen. One solution for that mistake I have found so far is sanding it off/grinding it off with a surform tool.

What type of marking tool works well on extruded foam and won't bleed through your ground cover/paint? White board pens won't bleed BUT they seem to eat the foam a bit. Pencils, which worked great on the plywood of the last layout just rip up the foam. Ideas?

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Borrow some crayons from your kids.