Pick and Pluck foam

[Butthead]

Anyone care to share their feelings on using pick and pluck foam for rifle cases. I need a new case for a new rifle and I suck cutting one piece foam and was wondering if the pick and pluck stuff was any good. Do the squares you dont pluck stay together? How well? Thought I would give it a try but with the extra cost for it I thought I had better ask all of you first.

Butthead

[ar15barrels]

Pick and pluck is not strong enough for use with rifles.
Get some foam and practice cutting it.
Look into making or buying a hot knife.

[Flat Broke]

Another tool that works really well for cutting some types of foam can be found in your kitchen. If you have an electric knife, you might try that on some scrap when the wife's not looking. If you watch most interior shops, the shears they use are very similar to the electric knife you used to see people carving their turkeys and hams with.

Chris

[argonadict]

http://hotwirefoamfactory.com/product.php?productid=16140&cat=3&page=1

http://www.foambymail.com/packaging.html

http://ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=292695

[Butthead]

Thanks for all of the great input guys. The hotwire cutter setup looks awesome. Now I will just need a bigger house to store everything. I tend to do this kinda thing. Build (or buy) a tool to do a single project. Then I dont want to get rid of it cause I just might need it again someday for another project and pretty soon no room left for me at the Inn. We need to get a group together to buy (or make) one and just send it around to the next person who needs to use it.

Thanks again,

Butthead

[argonadict]

Thanks for all of the great input guys. The hotwire cutter setup looks awesome. Now I will just need a bigger house to store everything. I tend to do this kinda thing. Build (or buy) a tool to do a single project. Then I dont want to get rid of it cause I just might need it again someday for another project and pretty soon no room left for me at the Inn. We need to get a group together to buy (or make) one and just send it around to the next person who needs to use it.

Thanks again,

Butthead

i will be buying one of the wire cutters soon,my wife wants me to make foam for her camera stuff (hence having the linx handy)so its a good excuse to get one,i would be happy to share or a gun case foam knitting circle would be hilarious

[NiteQwill]

What I did with my pick and pluck foam was reinforce it with cardboard in certain areas to increase the strength of "caving in" in some areas. Works great for a long time so far.