Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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.

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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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Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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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.

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Dennis

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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 "**** 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.

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

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.

That's funny, your private dumping ground, huh. You throw that much over
that fence? Even important stuff? hmmmm


I still have nightmares about it.
The face on the foam! even sounds scary.



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but you can't make them THINK"
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Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

evodawg wrote:
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.

That's funny, your private dumping ground, huh. You throw that much
over that fence? Even important stuff? hmmmm


I still have nightmares about it.
The face on the foam! even sounds scary.

For fifteen years, this 200' wide power line property was a good neighbor.
Had some small hills, a copse of trees every 100 yards or so. One could
watch the hawks making a nest and see an occasional bunny hopping about (no
doubt that's why the hawks chose the neighborhood).

People rode their bikes, played softball, or just hiked or jogged down its
length.

Then, late last year, the power company came through and ground up all the
trees. They didn't chop them down, they had a stump grinder gizmo on a
big-ass boom that they raised up and turned the trees into flakes from the
top down! Sterilized the field, they did.

I'm a ****in' STOCKHOLDER in Centerpoint (the power company). I called and
raised more hell than the third monkey on Noah's gangplank while all this
was in progress and was told the company was REQUIRED to cut down the trees
by the Department of Homeland Security!

Bunch lying slugs, you ask me. Not even Homeland Security thinks terrorists
grow on trees!

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

HeyBub wrote:

For fifteen years, this 200' wide power line property was a good
neighbor. Had some small hills, a copse of trees every 100 yards or
so. One could watch the hawks making a nest and see an occasional
bunny hopping about (no doubt that's why the hawks chose the
neighborhood).

People rode their bikes, played softball, or just hiked or jogged
down its length.

Then, late last year, the power company came through and ground up
all the trees. They didn't chop them down, they had a stump grinder
gizmo on a big-ass boom that they raised up and turned the trees into
flakes from the top down! Sterilized the field, they did.

I'm a ****in' STOCKHOLDER in Centerpoint (the power company). I
called and raised more hell than the third monkey on Noah's gangplank
while all this was in progress and was told the company was REQUIRED
to cut down the trees by the Department of Homeland Security!

Bunch lying slugs, you ask me. Not even Homeland Security thinks
terrorists grow on trees!

They are doing the same thing near me, it has to do with keeping
the power grid safe. It's not the power company's rule, they are
forced to do it. A crying shame, I feel badly for the people affected.

nancy

Foam like "GREAT STUFF" can they be tooled?
 

Nancy Young wrote:

Then, late last year, the power company came through and ground up
all the trees. They didn't chop them down, they had a stump grinder
gizmo on a big-ass boom that they raised up and turned the trees into
flakes from the top down! Sterilized the field, they did.

I'm a ****in' STOCKHOLDER in Centerpoint (the power company). I
called and raised more hell than the third monkey on Noah's gangplank
while all this was in progress and was told the company was REQUIRED
to cut down the trees by the Department of Homeland Security!

Bunch lying slugs, you ask me. Not even Homeland Security thinks
terrorists grow on trees!

They are doing the same thing near me, it has to do with keeping
the power grid safe. It's not the power company's rule, they are
forced to do it. A crying shame, I feel badly for the people
affected.
nancy

Yeah, but safe from WHAT?

Do the amorphous "they" think goblins are breeding in the mini-forests? Is
is possible a 60' tree, 150 feet from a 200,000 volt line that's 100 feet in
the air presents a problem? Are they afraid the emergency responders will
collide with Mister Oak while trying to find a downed line?

Bah!