Fwd: [alberg30] getting to insulation

[TheBlancs at cs.com]

From: TheBlancs at cs.com

I did the expanding foam insulation thing  to my old-style icebox (two part 
foam from Read Plastics in Rockville). It helped. It also pushed the icebox 
liner in a little. The stuff really expands. 

I also found that a shop vac with a crevice tool "extended" (by duct-taping a 
flattened cardboard tube around it) helped me get the old insulation out - it 
didn't suck it into the vacuum so much as give me a way to grab chunks of it. 
Probably not great for the vacuum, but getting the stuff out isn't great for 
the sanity. Leave the vacuum in the cockpit or wear hearing protection. Or 
maybe your shop vac is quieter than mine... If i remember correctly, I 
crunched/cut up the foam with a thin strip of metal first.

Frankly, though, what seems to help the most is to put a foam cushion (the 
inexpensive 3/4 - 1" thick ones that are often giveaways) on top of the ice 
BENEATH the deck opening. We found this is much more effective than a boat 
cushion atop the cockpit opening.

I'm thinking of cutting the whole thing down and making a nice platform in 
its place for a 96 quart marine cooler - I'm only half joking. I know it 
wouldn't look great, but if you weekend the way we do, it's a lot easier to 
have the cooler loaded and just slip it in place than to load the icebox from 
the cooler and let everthing warm up while the icebox cools down. Then maybe 
glue up  a little six-pack cooler under the cockpit opening for cold ones 
(soda for the kids I mean) in the cockpit...

Kevin Blanc
Terrapin #254

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