RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] source for syntac foam

[Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>]

Hi Dean,

Another option is to make it yourself. I believe the
process is mixing glass microspheres into epoxy resin.
 Try a plastics shop. 

Regards,
Ray

--- Jon Wallace <jon@psubs.org> wrote:

> Dean,
> 
> I think Cliff Redus experimented with similar
> material for the R-300.  You
> might inquire with him about it.  I also made a
> contact with Trelleborg
> Engineered Systems at the Underwater Intervention in
> January.  Try
> contacting ian.griffiths at trelleborg.com and you
> can remind him that he
> offered wholesale pricing for PSUBS members.  He had
> told me that for
> syntactic foam they need to build a mold and pour it
> to the mold.  There's
> another product, but I can't recall the name, which
> is similar to syntactic
> foam which they can sell in blocks so that you can
> machine it yourself.
> This other product can't reach the same depths as
> syntactic foam, but if I
> recall correctly it was well within the working
> depths of personal subs.
> 
> Jon
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org]On
> Behalf Of Recon1st@aol.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:25 AM
>   To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>   Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] source for syntac foam
> 
> 
>   It looks like I will need some foam.
>   Does anyone have a good source for syntactic foam?
>   I have looked some at our source list and did not
> see it.
> 
>   Dean Ackman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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