presidentsdad
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Hello FOG!
I’ve had a number of questions regarding the Kaizen foam from FastCap. To help me answer those questions, Hans at TSO Products sent me a kit with Kaizen Foam already cut for systainers (a 20mm and 30mm set of inserts), a long reach marker, a Kaizen knife, and a Kaizen Hot Knife. THANKS Hans!!
Using it was fairly simple. Arrange the items (sorry about the non Festool tools in the Festool systainer) [eek] on the Kaizen foam, trace with the long reach marker, determine the depth, trace the lines with the Kaizen knife, peel out the foam (a few layers at a time), test fit, cut or peel out more foam, test fit again, and use the hot knife and “penny” tip to flatten the bottom and the edge of the hot knife to make a thumb hole for the various small pieces.
Having said that, a couple of things. For my application, the 30mm foam was not quite deep enough, so I used some 3M Super 77 to laminate to two pieces of Kaizen foam together. This allowed me to go about 40mm deep and still have about 10mm for cushion on the bottom. Make sure you hold the pen as straight up and down as you can, because if you don’t, you’ll be coming back to cut out more foam. Keep the Kaizen knife as perpendicular to the surface as you can (or you might cut through the side). The hot knife on the hottest setting needs a light touch to sculpt the bottom flat and to burn in the thumb holes.
Overall fairly easy as I said. I’d totally do it again and now I’m looking for more projects to do this with!
Again, thanks to HANS at TSO PRODUCTS!!
Below will be the pictures/explanation. Let me know if you have any questions!
I’ve had a number of questions regarding the Kaizen foam from FastCap. To help me answer those questions, Hans at TSO Products sent me a kit with Kaizen Foam already cut for systainers (a 20mm and 30mm set of inserts), a long reach marker, a Kaizen knife, and a Kaizen Hot Knife. THANKS Hans!!
Using it was fairly simple. Arrange the items (sorry about the non Festool tools in the Festool systainer) [eek] on the Kaizen foam, trace with the long reach marker, determine the depth, trace the lines with the Kaizen knife, peel out the foam (a few layers at a time), test fit, cut or peel out more foam, test fit again, and use the hot knife and “penny” tip to flatten the bottom and the edge of the hot knife to make a thumb hole for the various small pieces.
Having said that, a couple of things. For my application, the 30mm foam was not quite deep enough, so I used some 3M Super 77 to laminate to two pieces of Kaizen foam together. This allowed me to go about 40mm deep and still have about 10mm for cushion on the bottom. Make sure you hold the pen as straight up and down as you can, because if you don’t, you’ll be coming back to cut out more foam. Keep the Kaizen knife as perpendicular to the surface as you can (or you might cut through the side). The hot knife on the hottest setting needs a light touch to sculpt the bottom flat and to burn in the thumb holes.
Overall fairly easy as I said. I’d totally do it again and now I’m looking for more projects to do this with!
Again, thanks to HANS at TSO PRODUCTS!!
Below will be the pictures/explanation. Let me know if you have any questions!
