Foam replacement options

From: Richard A. Cini <rcini_at_optonline.net>
Date: Sun Jan 18 09:50:49 2004

>>When I was working on VAXen/PDP-11s on a daily basis, 10+
>>years ago, we wanted to replace the thin foam that's in the front of
>>many disk drives and CPU boxes, and the slightly thicker foam that's
>>over the cabinet fans.

When I had my 11/34, I had the same problem. I went to Home Depot and got a
package of air conditioning filter foam. It's the stuff behind the room-side
grille in window A/Cs. It's easily cuttable to size and was about the same
thickness. I also use different kinds of self-adhesive weatherstripping for
the foam gaskets in the RK05 drives (around the fan motor for example).

Rich

Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:24 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Foam replacement options


On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:01:05AM -0500, Richard A. Cini wrote:
> Any thoughts? Has anyone found a foam supplier that can do small
quantities?

I never have. When I was working on VAXen/PDP-11s on a daily basis, 10+
years ago, we wanted to replace the thin foam that's in the front of
many disk drives and CPU boxes, and the slightly thicker foam that's
over the cabinet fans.

We had to buy 4'x8' sheets. I think we used 10% of it to refurb several
racks.

Don't remember where we went, but it was some local plastics supplier.

-ethan

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