[Public-list] Another Kingsland Crazy Idea

[Mike Lehman]

Spray foam comes in several varieties. I would use "minimal expansion" foam. 
You can buy this at any hardware store, we used it with double-hung windows 
so it would not push the jambs out and cause the windows to stick, when I 
was building houses.



Mike Lehman
"Gilleleje" #505

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Roger L. Kingsland" <rkingsland101 at ksba.com>
Reply-To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at alberg30.org>
To: "Alberg30" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Subject: [Public-list] Another Kingsland Crazy Idea
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:46:03 -0400

Albergers,

I hate those really low spots (forward and inboard) in the cockpit lockers 
because everything migrates there and they are just out of reach.  (Plus, my 
port locker drain hole somehow directs the water behind the engine mount and 
it ends up on the cabin sole; it only took a year to discover why that was 
happening.)  I thought of installing triangular false floors at the bottom 
of the lockers and am exploring a few options; 1) filling the area w/ 
packing peanuts and drowning them in epoxy (afraid, however, that the heat 
of the curing epoxy would melt the peanuts) and perhaps cause a weird 
chemical reaction), 2) same thing only use ping pong balls (afraid of same 
heat problem then realized both balls and nuts would float to the surface of 
the epoxy anyway),  3) install 1/4" plywood "false floor" and fill cavity 
with some of that expanding foam that comes in a can.

So the questions; 1) can anyone think of a "filler" material slightly less 
buoyant than epoxy that I can add as an aggregate to fill the cavities (of 
course, if it has to be heavier than epoxy, perhaps it isn't desirable to 
add that much weight) or, 2) what kind of foam in a can I should use to fill 
the cavity created by the false floor?

Roger Kingsland
Chief Financial Officer (AKA, check writer)
PERFECT intentions, A30 #148
N40°  29.288'
W79°  54.228'

Author's Disclaimer; This email was produced exclusively by the sender and, 
in the interest of expediency, without the benefit of editing by others.  
The sender, thank goodness, is a much better architect/sailor than 
speller/editor and, frankly, constantly laments an obvious flaw in "spell 
check," it does not know what the author is thinking.  Please accept the 
sender's sincere apologies for any "typos" that may appear in this document. 
  If present, they are certainly unintended and hopefully do not cloud the 
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