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Need small amount of heavy duty reflective foil.
I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I
(almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. -- Mike |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:01:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Jimk
wrote: Mike Halmarack Wrote in message: I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. Not sure what constitutes "heavy duty foil" but maybe scrounge some pir insulation board & peel the foil(s) off that? Thanks, I'll look out for some of that. Cooking foil, even when pasted on carefully tends to damage easily, so anything sturdier would be better for the job. -- Mike |
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Need small amount of heavy duty reflective foil.
Mike Halmarack Wrote in message:
I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. Not sure what constitutes "heavy duty foil" but maybe scrounge some pir insulation board & peel the foil(s) off that? -- Jimk ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 28/09/2020 09:23, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. You might be better off looking for 0.5mm thick aluminium sheet which is available in such sizes for a fairly reasonable price. eg. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium...s/113587766662 Any thinner and it gets more expensive and harder to find larger sizes. Or you have to buy a big roll of it. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Need small amount of heavy duty reflective foil.
Maybe you need some of that stuff those thermal silver blankets are made
from? Brian -- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Mike Halmarack" wrote in message ... I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. -- Mike |
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Need small amount of heavy duty reflective foil.
It was of course invented as a bum warmer, simply sit astride it for that
warm glowing feeling? or perhaps not. So if you can't remember what it was for, what is it for now? Brian -- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Mike Halmarack" wrote in message ... I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. -- Mike |
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"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" Wrote in message:
Maybe you need some of that stuff those thermal silver blankets are made from? Brian Or simply some of that silvery reflective stuff sold purposely for you to put behind radiators.... -- Jimk ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:23:20 +0100, Mike Halmarack
wrote: I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. https://www.toolstation.com/construc...nsulation/c626 https://www.toolstation.com/ybs-radi...or-foil/p63102 |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:21:14 +0100, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Cooking foil, even when pasted on carefully tends to damage easily, Retail supermarket cooking foil is very thin compared to catering grade stuff. Though I suspect that wouldn't be really strong enough either. As others have said look at the reflective things sold to go behind radiators or maybe opened out metalised film crisp multipacks. -- Cheers Dave. |
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In article l.net,
Dave Liquorice wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:21:14 +0100, Mike Halmarack wrote: Cooking foil, even when pasted on carefully tends to damage easily, Retail supermarket cooking foil is very thin compared to catering grade stuff. Though I suspect that wouldn't be really strong enough either. As others have said look at the reflective things sold to go behind radiators or maybe opened out metalised film crisp multipacks. How about sandwiching the foil between two pieces of ply? -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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On 28/09/2020 10:21, Mike Halmarack wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:01:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Jimk wrote: Mike Halmarack Wrote in message: I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. Not sure what constitutes "heavy duty foil" but maybe scrounge some pir insulation board & peel the foil(s) off that? Thanks, I'll look out for some of that. Cooking foil, even when pasted on carefully tends to damage easily, so anything sturdier would be better for the job. 'heavy duty foil' tends to become 'sheet metal' fairly quickly... ....https://www.aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk...luminium-sheet... There is the adhesive tape used with celotex insulation to make the joints air and moisture tight... .... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gocableties.../dp/B078WSC83F -- Renewable energy: Expensive solutions that don't work to a problem that doesn't exist instituted by self legalising protection rackets that don't protect, masquerading as public servants who don't serve the public. |
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On 28/09/2020 09:23, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. 2L2 do you? |
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On 28/09/2020 14:53, Jim GM4 DHJ ... wrote:
On 28/09/2020 09:23, Mike Halmarack wrote: I've got a mobile, old style electric towel rail on a plywood board. I (almost) forget the original purpose but I think it might come in useful this winter. The plywood board is faced with cooking foil which is useful but very easily damaged due to it's thinness. Can anyone please recommend a source for heavy duty foil, where I don't have to buy a big roll? The area I need to cover is only 1Metre x1Metre. 2L2 do you? got a small roll in the hut...I think |
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Need small amount of heavy duty reflective foil.
Thanks a lot for all the useful suggestions.
I'll check each of them out and I'm sure one of them will do the trick. -- Mike |
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On 28/09/2020 10:21, Martin Brown wrote:
You might be better off looking for 0.5mm thick aluminium sheet which is available in such sizes for a fairly reasonable price. eg. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium...s/113587766662 £19 might be reasonable but plus £49 delivery ! |
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Mike Halmarack Wrote in message:
Thanks a lot for all the useful suggestions. I'll check each of them out and I'm sure one of them will do the trick. If not I'm sure "Andrew" will be along in a couple of days to wrap things up :-) -- Jimk ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 29/09/2020 09:55, Mike Clarke wrote:
On 28/09/2020 10:21, Martin Brown wrote: You might be better off looking for 0.5mm thick aluminium sheet which is available in such sizes for a fairly reasonable price. eg. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium...s/113587766662 £19 might be reasonable but plus £49 delivery ! Ouch! You need to find a local sheet metal stockist and hope for a right sized offcut. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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