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Posted: March 15, 2005 at 10:40 AM / IP Logged

if you try to get the foam to dissolve using gasoline, um, be VEEEEERRRRY careful....that stuff in Vietman called Napalm, yeah, when you soak styrene foam in gasoline you get napalm!

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Well, its not really Napalm but almost as effective. Did I say effective?? I meant dangerous.

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Well, I tried my tape theory anyways.. just wanted to make sure if it would work or not.

Everyone said it wouldn't work.. but guess what?.. it did!. I used to work at a production company, and I still have black gaffers tape from them. It's the same size as ducttape, and it's the same material like medical tape. I used that to make my current box blend with my oem plastic panels. Drilled holes into the plastic every 4 inches so the resin could seep into them to make a better bond to the plastic. Then I brushed a light coat of resin on the tape, waited 24 hrs hrs, and brushed on a 2nd coat.. and it's hard as a rock. Tomorrow i'll be laying 2 or 3 layers of matt over that, bondo.. and i'm set.

So, if you have black gaffers tape.. you can indeed resin it. The tape doesn't lose grip to whatever it's taped to, and it didn't sag.

Ya learn somethin new every day :)

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I'm glad you actually tried it. I had a feeling the only thing that would keep it from working would be whatever tape you used. Now I know a new trick if I ever need it.

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Im still confused on what gaffers tape is??????

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Just like, cloth tape. I think.

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Posted: March 17, 2005 at 11:04 AM / IP Logged

realitycheck wrote:

Im still confused on what gaffers tape is??????

It's a tape that production/tv people use to tape down wires, etc. It's a black cloth. I mixed my resin hot, because of the weather here, and when it touched the tape.. it didn't sag or lost tackyness. Doesn't leave residue either.

Great stuff. Type in gaffers tape in google and i'm sure you can find it. If you can't I can find out where to get it.

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I know what kind of tape you're talking about now. I dont remember where I've seen it, but I know what you're talking about. Its a cloth and its not shiny like the back of duct tape, its got like a mat finish to it. I think my grandfather has some at his house or something.

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realitycheck wrote:

Yep, that's it!

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