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Sciencing The Shit Outa This
🕑 Added 2018-12-08 23:58:56 +0000 UTC When you have fill gaps to kill drafts in places you can't possibly reach, then it's time to make a tool. Behold! The 8 Foot Foamer Gun! It sits on the shoulder for two- handed overhead operation. Basically a reinforced aluminum frame for a length of 1/4" PVC pipe as a conduit for expanding foam. Precisely aims expanding foam into areas far out of reach. I should have thought up this one years ago.
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so 2 Pi x 1/8" (ID) x 96" (8ft) equals (approximately) 75.1 cubic inches - which is what you would have to use to get to the tip of this behemoth - I'm sure the can has enough - then again depends on how much you need to do - the unexpanded liquid is considerably less volume - so - let me know what happens!
"Give me a lever - and a place to stand - and I shall move the Earth"
Paul John Showalter
genius!
Bruce Havourd
"Ya gotta do whatcha gotta do!"
Fran Blanche
Ah.... memories of foam.
Fran Blanche
Once and done.
Fran Blanche
Really the top part of a fresh can and fortunately I don't have too many runs to do with this.
Fran Blanche
Damn. And here I was all set to 3D print one.
EEVblog
I have a new solution to your problem. Buy a cheap block of land and build an entire new home out of 1000 cans of expanding foam.
Aluminium angle always comes to the rescue for those out of reach places ! If you had an airline in the lab you could make that tube more than single-use :o)
haha awesome :D
It should not clog if you close the end of the pipe.
lohphat
Can this be used to strategically place whipped cream in an intimate social situation? Asking for a friend.
Gee Bee
Makes sense that it would work, as long as the propellant pressure is adequate to overcome the friction in the long pipe.
BobC
Necessity is one heck of a mother.
How long can you let it sit before it clogs hard, which I assume it does. Seems like it would have to. I haven't had holes to plug like you, and I have some pretty high ceilings.
Jeff Larson
Hows it working? I did the same thing but with smaller tubing and it was real slow to push the foam through.
That will do it
Nicholas Wilson
Outstanding! 😊
Karl Bunker
Hmm, is the 1/4" tube one-time use only, or have you come up with a way to unclog it? Anyway, this little post has inspired me to look into making a similar-but-totally-different-in-purpose thingy which will save me a lot of labor if it works out.
My father and I made a similar contraption a few years back to patch a hole in the top of our quanset. It was a few feet longer, but the idea and use was basically the same, I hadn't thought of that in a while, brings back good memories.
Zygmunt Dean
[Darth Vader voice] Impressive!
