I have dealt with FoamByMail.com, and I recommend them. Their customer
service is quite good.
Here are the largely-irrelevant background details:
At the time I needed a shipping case for a 20 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain
telescope. There are companies out there that make custom cases, but they
are horrendously expensive. I searched the web and found an article
describing exactly what I needed; the article also recommended
FoamByMail.com. The original article is offline, but I found the version
preserved by archive.org's Wayback Machine, which unfortunately doesn't
have the pictures:
http://tinyurl.com/yhl3mw
Following the article's recommendations, I took a plastic container the
size of a steamer trunk and carefully cut and hot-glued several thick
closed-cell foam slices to hold the telescope.
To return to the current discussion -- an alternative to the prescored
foam could be to use a technique similar to the one I used. To be more
specific, some wide closed-cell foam could be cut into slices, carved as
necessary, and then glued or hot-glued together to form the shape required.
By the way, my homemade telescope case works very well. However the hot
glue over two years has ceased to hold in several places. I will probably
reglue with some other glue, perhaps epoxy or Gorilla Glue. The hot glue
was useful however, because it worked well enough for a few months, and
allowed me to prove the concept without being too permanent.
73,
- Rob W7GH
K2 #5004
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:35:41 -0700, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A quick google search got http://www.foambymail.com. Click on Packaging
Foam on the left and I think you will find exactly what you are looking
for.
Larry, KB5DXY
K1 #2269
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