Wing foam needed

[Marc Oppelt]

If anybody in the nortthwest area has any wing foam billets they want to part with,  I am in the market for it. I need one wing's worth.  (5- 14"x64" & 2- 14"x41")  I can be reached at marcoppelt@gmail.com

[Marc Oppelt]

No longer needed; bought 4 ea 10 x 20 x 96 Dow Flotation Billets for $573 from my local lumberyard.  I picked them up with my cargo trailer 10 minutes from home.  I got 43% more foam than if I had ordered one wing's worth from Spruce... which would have cost $1107 with shipping.

I'd called Dow and asked where I could find this product near me.  They gave me a regional distributor, with whom I then had my lumberyard place an order.  Had the foam the next day.

And yeah, it's the same stuff.

Today we hotwired the cores for the port wing, and have one whole log + 40% of another leftover to use for winglets. (we need two pair)

 

[Alan Laudani]

Marc,
Who was the distributor?
I'm in the Northwest-- Shady Cove, OR (NE of Medford)
How did the Floatation Billets compare with the normal foam?
I see 1.8 lb/ft3 density vs  the 2 lb/ft3 with AS&S foam.
Were the corners square or rounded?

[dorr]

The stuff Spruce sold over the years started out lighter and whiter and heavier and bluer later on.   We've used the floatation billets with great success over the years.

Beagle

[patchntx]

I think I am a little confused. After researching all the forums, I was under the impression that the "Fabrication Billet" or "Pipe Billet" is the Extruded foam that is the correct density and cell size and is listed by Dow and ITW as XPS Pipe Fabrication billet now.  And that the "Flotation Billet" is Expanded foam, weaker, lower density, and wrong cell size. Am I misinformed, confused, or neither?

[dorr]

Our use is well over 25 years ago - better check the spec...

Beagle