sailorman
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i think you will find Foamalux is a similar product
Using Formica on interior / advice?
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i think you will find Foamalux is a similar product
nimbusgb
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I re veneered all of the interior of Cariad. In places where I could not demount panels and use a laminate cutting bit in the router I made up accurate paper patterns and used a mains driven Dremel driving a 90 deg gearbox and a 1 inch diameter diamond cutting disk to accurately cut out the laminate first. The laminate and the panel were then coated in adhesive and the laminate offered up.
Yes, you only get one shot at it so you learn a few tricks with battens and plastic sheets between the two.
You also learn that a 2 metre by 2 metre expanse of bulkhead and the matching laminate give of a LOT of glue fumes - not good in the confined space of a boat saloon.
Yes, you only get one shot at it so you learn a few tricks with battens and plastic sheets between the two.
You also learn that a 2 metre by 2 metre expanse of bulkhead and the matching laminate give of a LOT of glue fumes - not good in the confined space of a boat saloon.
vyv_cox
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Maybe similar but not the same, I think. The stuff I used was solid, no foam at all, about 3 mm thick. I first saw it being used to line the wall behind urinals in the toilets at Milford Haven.
sailorman
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this product is the same as that, used in Pro kitchens & bathrooms
billcole
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Another thought...as you say you're a beginner at DIY, do you know about the "rectangle and stick" method of copying big irregular shapes ?
If you've got a shape to copy, say a heads bulkhead, with at least one square corner, then put a rectangular piece of scrap plywood or something in that corner. Then get a batten long enough to reach all the other edges of the bulkhead, and make one end pointed.
Now put the pointed end against the irregular edges at intervals, with the other end overlapping your plywood rectangle, and, on the plywood rectangle, draw round that other end of the batten.
Next,take the batten and rectangle to your sheet of formica, put the rectangle in one corner, and then align the batten with each of your outlines of its non pointed end in turn, and mark on the formica where the pointed end is. In this way you get a "join the dots" outline of the piece you need to cut out.
If necessary, you can use two different battens to accomodate the shape you need, as long as you label each outline with which batten was used to make it
If you've got a shape to copy, say a heads bulkhead, with at least one square corner, then put a rectangular piece of scrap plywood or something in that corner. Then get a batten long enough to reach all the other edges of the bulkhead, and make one end pointed.
Now put the pointed end against the irregular edges at intervals, with the other end overlapping your plywood rectangle, and, on the plywood rectangle, draw round that other end of the batten.
Next,take the batten and rectangle to your sheet of formica, put the rectangle in one corner, and then align the batten with each of your outlines of its non pointed end in turn, and mark on the formica where the pointed end is. In this way you get a "join the dots" outline of the piece you need to cut out.
If necessary, you can use two different battens to accomodate the shape you need, as long as you label each outline with which batten was used to make it
BlueLancer
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Thanks for the link vyv. I have been looking for something similar for my heads.
Chris_Robb
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Also cuts extremely easily using a stanley knife on the underside. It was much easier to work than I thought. Then simply file back using a fine file with downward strokes once bonded (using evostick type contact adhesive).