Tuff-R Foam

General Discussion
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What kind of Resin would you use for Tuff-R Foam.

Can you use epoxy for this?

This is insulation foam from home depot fyi.

thanks

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Sounds like styrofoam, if it is, definitely DO NOT use polyester resin. Epoxy is your best bet on that stuff.

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http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_fields=sb&search_type=AND&search_string=home%20depot%20blank

check out some of these threads for more info.

lots of “Home Depot” blanks in the archives.

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Sounds like styrofoam, if it is, definitely DO NOT use polyester resin. Epoxy is your best bet on that stuff.

According to the Dow site, the material is polyisocyanurate, and according to Wikipedia, that is an improvement on polyurethane tech, but chemically similar. So PE resin may be OK, but it would definitely warrant a test before laminating a shaped Tuff-R blank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyisocyanurate

-Samiam