A while back I posted a link to a page on my website desribing how I was making my own ground foam for my scenery. I got a lot of favorable response from people who have tried it and made their own. Earlier this week it was raining, so I decided to make foam instead of going skiing and accidently stumbled onto something. One of the batches I made was wetter than normal when I dumped it out of the blender. I did not think it would be a problem so I left it to dry along with the 4 other piles that I made. Well, after being sick with that achy, sinusy cold thing tha was going around and not able to do much but sleep for three days I was able to get back down there last night to see if the foam had dried. Well it did, the 4 normal piles were like they usually come out and the wet pile was one solid clump. I tried to break it up but I could only get it into dime sized pieces. so, I figured what the heck…see if I can run it back through the blender. Well I did and the results were stunning. the foam round up much finer and fluffier than what I have been getting. I ran all of the stuff I made earlier back through and it all came out real nice. It seems that the paint stiffens the foam up a bit and allows the cutters to chop it up finer. I did all of this dry and it only took about 30 seconds to run each batch back through on high speed.
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
