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Re: [6pack] Frame repair - Foam Filler?

To: DLylis@aol.com
Subject: Re: [6pack] Frame repair - Foam Filler?
From: Jim Franks <jimmble@roadrunner.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:38:49 -0400
I wholeheartedly agree based on some past experience cutting open 
sections where foam was used. It made the rust worse.

Jim

DLylis@aol.com wrote:
> I am going to go on the record here as predicting that in the not too  
> distant future, injecting foam into chassis rails is going to come back as a 
>bad 
>  idea.  I will qualify this statement by saying that injecting foam in an  
> uncontrolled, non manufacturing environment is a bad idea.  I think that  
> Ratco does it (may be mistaken here) but I bet they don't drive down to Home  
> Depot to pick up a can when they do it.  My bet is that they have equipment  
> designed to insure coverage.  I have used this stuff in non automotive  
> applications and then had the need to cut into it later.  This stuff does  
> create voids and does not expand infinitely to eliminate all air space where 
>it  
> is squirted.  Personally, I would rethink a DIY application of this in a  
> metal chassis.
> YMMV
> Just my two Euros worth, and I could be wrong.
>  
> David  Lylis
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