Great Stuff tips...

HibLaGrande · #1 10-09-2005

I just thought a thread dedicated to great stuff expanding foam would be cool to have around. So here is a place to share your experience with the stuff that nightmares are made of (in more ways than one)

. If you have pictures of project you have made with it . Or if you have found out the hard way, as I have ,just how messy it can be to work with.Feel free to post it .

my own rules of the road when using this stuff.

I now wear gloves, safety glasses, long pants, long sleave shirt, stocking cap and shoes that you can throw away. This stuff does not come off your skin without a fight. It will not come out of your hair or your dogs hair.

you and your dog will need a hair cut if some accedently flips into your hair.

Work In a low traffic area with plenty of room to move around and keep kids and pets away.

Heavy gauge plastic sheeting is great to work on. I have sprayed the sheet with WD-40, Silicone, or rubbed on a light coat of lithium grease in the past to keep the foam from sticking to it. If the plastic is new clean and smooth you can get away without using a lubricant of some sort. Once the foam has cured it will peel off of the plastic fairly easy.

Great stuff is rather expensive. so I use an armature when ever possible. I made a nice size chest piece by laying a pile of shop towels on my work table in the ruff shape of a torso. I then covered the towels with heavy duty plastic and then covered that with the foam. It came out nice and gorey looking.

thats all I have time for now.

mikeq91 · #2 10-09-2005

How do you prevent it from sticking in the tubing?

Lotus · #3 10-09-2005

I have found that if you spray wd40 on the parts that you have great stuff on it comes right off, I found this out when I got it all over my hands and my dad told me to spray some wd40 on it

Vlad · #4 10-09-2005

I know that it's tough to use as a casting agent. Very unpredictable. It is great for forming bodies and parts though.

HibLaGrande · #5 10-09-2005

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Originally Posted by mikeq91

How do you prevent it from sticking in the tubing?

Once you open the can you have to use it all. There is no storeing it for later use. If I have a little left in a can I usually squirt out blobs of stuff on my plastic sheet to make assorted chunks of guts and gore.

maxcarnage · #6 10-09-2005

quick monster hands

if you put on a pair of cheap cotton gloves (jersey). you can creat quick monster hands by spraying a good size blob onto some cardboard, and then picking it up, and smear it all over the gloves....kinda like you would wash your hands....you can then hold your hands in a pose untill it starts to set (usually 10 minutes or so...depending on room temp. once it sets, it's pretty easy to remove the gloves and set up to allow to cure. I'll try and dig out a set I have from last year.

HibLaGrande · #7 10-09-2005

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Originally Posted by maxcarnage

quick monster hands

if you put on a pair of cheap cotton gloves (jersey). you can creat quick monster hands by spraying a good size blob onto some cardboard, and then picking it up, and smear it all over the gloves....kinda like you would wash your hands....you can then hold your hands in a pose untill it starts to set (usually 10 minutes or so...depending on room temp. once it sets, it's pretty easy to remove the gloves and set up to allow to cure. I'll try and dig out a set I have from last year.

cool I'll have to give that a shot.

maxcarnage · #8 10-10-2005

here's a pic of the gloves/hands that I made....add a little paint, and they're golden

p.s. you can achieve different textures of the finished product by playing with "whipping" great stuff into a thinner paste before applying to the gloves

SpectreTTM · #9 10-10-2005

Wow Max

Love the glove Idea. They look great.

I have used it as a Glue in the past.
I needed a way to attach a PVC flange to a cheap-o plastic pumpkin.
Boy did it ever work.

HibLaGrande · #10 10-11-2005

Here is a ghoul thingy I made with a pvc frame and foam.