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confirming experience of at least 10% loss per day no matter what.Igloo makes a "3 Day Cooler" (or some phrase like that) that works really well, especially when you keep some leftover foam nearby to gradually fill up as much air space as possible. Additional tape to seal the lid helps too...

ps/fyi: although there are plenty other chemicals that will also eat the foam, generally it is the propellant in aerosol cans that eats the foam... YMMV, read your MSDS

We use spray expansion foam from the Hardware Store as if it was Gorilla Glue. Both are just polyurethane. -Spray (and spread if you need to) -press together to pop bubbles and get on both pieces -let sit apart 8 minutes-or-so -press and hold together and it will never come apart.once dry, it...

Haha so true!Yep, thanks. Just had to do due-diligence and make sure there wasn't something I wasn't thinking of.

Checking if anyone has any updates to ideas and opinions in this thread, rather than posting an identical new one.We are being asked for 560sqft of realistic artificial grass for All My Sons as well. Some must be walked on and some is attached to a vertical wall.After some reasearch, I...

yeah, quite the eye catching title! :)

so they take classes before they put their hands on the hardware... where's the problem?

I and many of my workers learned a wood L stiffener is "hog trough", so maybe it's a west coast thing (and I too have always wondered how it's a trough without being a U shape). I wouldn't look down on "whaler" as long as everyone knew what we're talking about (love nautical in Theatre, my desk...

We use Van Arsdale-Harris in SF Bay Area. They store most wood indoors, and will even send us Gorman pine without my specifying, and our area rep visits occasionally and brings us free pencils. They are pricier and charge for delivery, but its reasonable considering the cost of me picking it...

(1.1 centimeter is close to 1/2"!)"1/8-in" lauan = 2.7mm (3/32") "1/4-in" lauan = 5.2mm (3/16")p.s. pine from Gorman is, indeed, lovely

We purchase a lot of pine 1x12 for framing (our lumber yard's #2 is still pretty good) and we rip to size as we usually have labor $ but low supplies $ (the weird world of Park & Rec budgeting). Stock is 1x6 for platform framing with 3/4"ply top, and 1x3 for most hard flats, to maximize the...

Van, what about the seam when you put 2@4x10 stock flats together?

p.s. before I started here, they experimented with medical tape. They really liked it. However, we have been battling with the removal of it ever since, with goo gone and a lot of elbow grease. Of course, it also doesn't help that at strike they just left it on stock because they also thought...

I generally use painters tape (but we don't have the humidity/peeling problem), and/or lightweight spackle if it really needs it, and a coat of shop waste paint before the scenic base. I find gaff or dutching way too thick for lauan flats, and just won't blend.

very cool, especially if they had built in wireless dmx :D