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asarangan(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:09 pm Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

Does anyone know what that thin (1/8"?) yellowish foam used

extensively on the aircraft? Searching through the archive, there was

a mention of it being PVC foam. Aircraftspruce and Wicks do not seem

to have anything that looks similar,  The only 1/8" foam I could find

was Divinycell PVC foam, which is blue and has a density of 3 lb/ft3.

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Fred Klein

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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:09 pm Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Andrew Sarangan wrote:

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		  Does anyone know what that thin (1/8"?) yellowish foam used

extensively on the aircraft? 	




I believe it is "Last-a-Foam"...unsure of the type...feels and sand like urethane...very handy stuff...Fred



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nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:41 am Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

Hi Andrew,



The rigid foam is a cross-linked PVC polymer and is manufactured by 

AIREX ag.  in Switzerland.

Available in various thicknesses and cell coarseness, the one that was 

used by Europa is 3.0mm - R63.80



I have no idea who retails this on your side of the pond but I can give 

you details of a UK supplier if needed.



a.t.b.



Nigel



On 09/12/2013 23:08, Andrew Sarangan wrote:

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 Does anyone know what that thin (1/8"?) yellowish foam used

 extensively on the aircraft?

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dave.glowa(at)termrim.co.
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:54 am Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

Andrew



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		  From memory the foam is Airex R63 available from IMPAG, it is a closed cell linear thermoplastic polymer with a density of 60kg, its is a long time since I bought some when I used to manufacture the wings and fuselages, Andy Draper at the LAA may be able to confirm. The wing componenets were 5mm thick foam and the fuselage components were 3mm foam.


	


Dave Glowa



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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:08 am Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

..... found it!



North America / South America:



Baltek Inc.

P.O. Box 16148, High Point, NC 27261

Office/Plant: 5240 National Center Drive

Colfax, North Carolina 27235, USA

Tel +1 336 398 1900

Fax +1 336 398 1901

corematerials.americas(at)3AComposites.com



On 10/12/2013 08:40, nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk wrote:

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 <nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk>



 Hi Andrew,



 The rigid foam is a cross-linked PVC polymer and is manufactured by 

 AIREX ag.  in Switzerland.

 Available in various thicknesses and cell coarseness, the one that was 

 used by Europa is 3.0mm - R63.80



 I have no idea who retails this on your side of the pond but I can 

 give you details of a UK supplier if needed.



 a.t.b.



 Nigel



 On 09/12/2013 23:08, Andrew Sarangan wrote:

> 

>

> Does anyone know what that thin (1/8"?) yellowish foam used

> extensively on the aircraft?

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asarangan(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:24 am Post subject: What material is the thin yellow foam?

Great, thank you for looking that up!



It is amazing how some of these things don't show up on any search engines.





On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:07 AM, nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk

<nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk> wrote:

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 <nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk>



  ..... found it!



 North America / South America:



 Baltek Inc.

 P.O. Box 16148, High Point, NC 27261

 Office/Plant: 5240 National Center Drive

 Colfax, North Carolina 27235, USA

 Tel +1 336 398 1900

 Fax +1 336 398 1901

 corematerials.americas(at)3AComposites.com

 On 10/12/2013 08:40, nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk wrote:

>

> 

> <nigel_graham(at)m-tecque.co.uk>

>

> Hi Andrew,

>

> The rigid foam is a cross-linked PVC polymer and is manufactured by AIREX

> ag.  in Switzerland.

> Available in various thicknesses and cell coarseness, the one that was

> used by Europa is 3.0mm - R63.80

>

> I have no idea who retails this on your side of the pond but I can give

> you details of a UK supplier if needed.

>

> a.t.b.

>

> Nigel

>

> On 09/12/2013 23:08, Andrew Sarangan wrote:

>>

>> 

>>

>> Does anyone know what that thin (1/8"?) yellowish foam used

>> extensively on the aircraft?

>

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