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Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled? MiamiCuse 06-26-2008
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Posted by MiamiCuse on June 26, 2008, 12:45 am
Can you spray those expansive foam spray into a void and use a knife or
something to tool or shape it? or do you have to wait till they expand and
finish then trim/slice off excess?

MC



Posted by Mike Paulsen on June 26, 2008, 1:36 am
MiamiCuse wrote:
> Can you spray those expansive foam spray into a void and use a knife or
> something to tool or shape it?

No.

> or do you have to wait till they expand and
> finish then trim/slice off excess?

Yes.


Posted by franz fripplfrappl on June 26, 2008, 6:52 am
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:45:18 -0400, MiamiCuse wrote:

> Can you spray those expansive foam spray into a void and use a knife or
> something to tool or shape it? or do you have to wait till they expand
> and finish then trim/slice off excess?
>
> MC

Until it dries completely, it is a gooey mess.



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Franz Fripplfrappl

Posted by DT on June 27, 2008, 10:50 am
says...
>
>Can you spray those expansive foam spray into a void and use a knife or
>something to tool or shape it? or do you have to wait till they expand and
>finish then trim/slice off excess?


You can use a wet bar of soap for rough shaping. Stick a handle of some kind
on one side to hold it. But then the foam keeps expanding so it's kind of hard
to determine what shape it will end up.

--
Dennis


Posted by HeyBub on June 27, 2008, 9:29 pm
MiamiCuse wrote:
> Can you spray those expansive foam spray into a void and use a knife
> or something to tool or shape it? or do you have to wait till they
> expand and finish then trim/slice off excess?
>
> MC

I was using a can of GS recently and the can developed a teeny leak. I
couldn't stop it. Finally, I said "Fuck this!" and threw the whole shebang
over the fence onto a power company right-of-way.

Some days later I was prowling through the weeds looking for something
important that I had thrown over the fence (I throw a lot over the fence)
and found the aforementioned GS menace.

All the GS had leaked from the tiny hole making a smooth, brown sphere about
the size of a bowling ball with the can still attached.

I pulled out my knife and carved a face in the hardened glob, much like
carving a pumpkin, and threw the sonofabitch even farther into the weeds.

I still have nightmares about it.



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