Kaizen foam for Systainers

[jnug]

I have purchased one 2" thick block of Kaizen foam so far as I wanted to see how good it would cut and customize. I guess I would say...not bad. It will still take some weight down at the bottom of a hole that you might have hogged out. I am at the point of buying more or not.

Anybody used it with long term success or complaints? Any other foam Systainer lining worth considering?

 

[Davej]

Kaizen is ethafoam . I've had a 3kg sds sitting in a sys 2 for a few years and it is still as good and ethafoam is dead cheap.
Dave

 

[jnug]

Sounds good enough to me. I think what impresses me most is the amount of weight even a thin sheet will take.

Once you have hogged out the area you need to hold your tool in some cases you are right down to the bottom of a 2.25" piece. Yet with maybe 0.125" left at the bottom it still takes the weight without compressing and causing concern that the tool might be damaged.

So far I have to say.....pretty good.

Styro is I think  a little rigid for this application. Styro might make for a good sacrificial sheet. But I don't think it will mold itself around the tool the way this stuff does. If you were a company that was supplying formed styro to customers for packaging sure they can make it conform to the parts. But for us I think we need something with a bit more give that will suck in around the tool. That is what this stuff appears to do. I really was thinking that maybe I am missing something in not getting the Pelican case foam which is more costly. But nobody has mentioned it here. At least not yet.