Hello Karen and eveyone Ethafoam is a closed-cell foam used by 'industry' such as for flotation, or insulation, and sometimes as packing - if there is a plastics fabricator where you are, they should know about it and probably have some (I notice at the one in my area, they just call this stuff 'Dow' - ethafoam itself is a Dow chemical product). Perhaps at a building supply place there is something else like it that you could use. You only want an endcut, they might sell cheaply. If your computer packing is really ethafoam, and not styrofoam, all you need is a 5 x 5 piece for each block. It doesn't even have to be deep; the block can be built of a layer of styrofoam packing, and a layer of ethafoam on top.
Styrofoam is made of compressed beads of plastic that eventually crumble if pinned into repeatedly. The closed-cell foams 'heal' when a pin is pushed in and taken out. I suppose eventually it will break down, too, from long use. In that case I would just replace the particular block. SMP lace in the UK sell block pillows and extra blocks. For info, the website is www.smplace.co.uk Hope this helps. On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Karen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ruth - can you tell me where you bought the ethafoam from and if they sell > overseas by mail order. I have been unsuccessfully trying to purchase > ethafoam in Malta but few, if any, know about it yet and it doesn't seem > to > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
