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Pamper your tools in a cosy drawer space!

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Meldonmech:
Hi

                   I got ma box,  got ma tools,  just need ma foam, an am ready to go.

                                                            Cheers David

dsquire:

--- Quote from: Meldonmech on October 29, 2013, 12:48:35 PM ---Hi

                   I got ma box,  got ma tools,  just need ma foam, an am ready to go.

                                                            Cheers David

--- End quote ---

David

When you get your foam and are ready, set, go....grab the camera and take a few shots to add a few photos's to this thread and keep it going. Like they say, a picture is like a thousand words.   :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don 54891

Eugene:
A great idea shortly to be incorporated into my shop build; thank you.

That expanding foam is really useful stuff. I've used it quite a bit in refurbishing our cottage where a gap filling and adhesive material is a Godsend (not an upright wall or right angle in the joint  :() and also for repairing and stabilising wonky wooden flooring in a disabled friends house. The pressure of it's expansion is surprising; if you put a piece of timber against an uneven brick wall and apply the foam, unless you carefully wedge things in place the expansion will simply push the timber way out of position. So you really will have to weight it down well in your tool drawer.

The one tip I can offer from experience is to strongly recommend that you wear latex gloves and your tattiest old working clobber; it's an absolute b****** to get off skin and you won't remove it from clothing at all.

Eug



 

ctim2008:
Tried this idea for two of my tool drawers at work. My first try completely failed and was unusable. I'm not sure if I just didn't use enough foam, it didn't expand at all, or a combination of the two. Regardless I wouldn't recommend using the "Great Stuff: Window and Door" foam as it stays flexible once cured and barely expanded at all. After that failure I went back and got the "Great Stuff: Big Gap Filler" and am currently waiting for it to finish curing. It seems okay so far and I'll be sure to post pictures tomorrow when it's done.

Thanks for the idea!!

John Hill:
Hi, I hope that new foam does the trick for you.  I only tried one and had a good result the first try but I did have to mess around a bit getting enough and not too much foam into all the corners etc.

I am looking forward to seeing your pictures! :wave:

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