"COATING" and Cleaning styrofoam incubators....? UPDATED........

[Junkmanme]

Akane,

THANK YOU for that information. I WILL Check on other silicones!

-Junkmanme-

 

[Intheswamp]

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Use the regular brush-on MinWax poly, don't use the spray...the propellant in the spray indeed eats foam. Several years ago 3M made an adhesive spray that RC enthusiasts used to spray on foam wings to hold the fiberglass in place as they spread on the poly. This worked well for years then one day 3M decided to change the formula....modelers started reporting the spray eating the foam...messed up many an RC project for a while there. It wasn't so much the actual adhesive as it was the propellant. Something else to know is that if you hold the spray can further away from the foam it doesn't melt it as badly....FWIW.

You could even try some epoxy if you felt up to it and wanted a *really* hard surface....I might just try that later myself (and it would be more resistant to the humidity).

Best wishes,
Ed

 

[Junkmanme]

ED (intheswamp),

Forty years ago, I built a VW dunebuggy mostly from "scratch". I bought a "reject" fibreglas body and had to completely "redo" the fibreglas. BIG MESSY PROJECT. It would be NICE, however to have a fibreglas/epoxy "shell" for the styrofoam incubators. (But...MORE WORK than I am prepared to do these days! (LAZY BUM). Ha-Ha!

(Incidentally...where the "back-seat" was supposed to be in the dune-buggy........I built-in a stryrofoam "cooler" to carry ice and those other things that one carrys when on an "outing".)

(The "tuck and roll" upholstered backseat was above the cooler.)

THANKS for the "info"...

I'll continue "foolin' with" this idea until I get something usable and easy to clean and disinfect.

-Junkmanme-

 

[hamilton3475]

There is a water based spray paint available. Google Krylon H2O