6mm depron at cost

DennisZ

got 20sq.m pack from Germany.
will sell half - http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=52673

coolwings

DennisZ wrote: »

..... will sell half ....

If I filled a room of my house from floor to ceiling with twenty square metres of white plastic foam the wife & kids would go ape ! :eek:

DennisZ

coolwings wrote: »

If I filled a room of my house from floor to ceiling with twenty square metres of white plastic foam the wife & kids would go ape ! :eek:

it is only one box

derry

you should cover your attic with the stuff and get with the going green save energy movement and get your money back from fuel saved

In fact depron is sold dirt cheap in the hardware shops in Europe for behind wall insulation sometimes only 2 euros per 6mm sheet if you know where to source it and when my mate used to come back every time from Europe from the building sites he brought back gobs of it what he rescuedfrom the skips for his house he was building for himself to use as insulation and lucky for me in that time I was able to scab a sheet or two of him for my indoor stuff

derry

DennisZ

derry wrote: »

you should cover your attic with the stuff and get with the going green save energy movement and get your money back from fuel saved

too late for attic - it is already insulated

derry wrote: »

In fact depron is sold dirt cheap in the hardware shops in Europe

it is also fact - depron is not available from h/w shops in Ireland .

Folks, I do not have a problem not having it sold at all .

coolwings

DennisZ wrote: »

.... depron is not available from h/w shops in Ireland .....

It is available here. I've got my depron at GreenHobbyModel in Harolds Cross, Dublin. www.greenhobbymodel.com
If you're buying ten sheets they give the eleventh sheet free.

I have a 3mm depron sheet from there right in front of me at the moment, and I just made this 1/3rd scale boat hull from depron fibreglass sandwich construction, the last couple of weeks.



It's 46" long, 12" breadth but with this method and materials the hull weighs only 14 oz.



it's 3mm depron with 2 layers of 80 gram/sqMetre fibreglass outside, one layer or 165 gram/M2 glass cloth inside, and selective reinforcing in places with a little 105 g/M2 glass added on stress points like gunwales, bows, and transom.

Depron is great for making slowfly indoors air models and rightly popular for this use.
But depron's problem is that it is soft, so if it is covered/protected with glass cloth composites the results are far stronger and brilliant for making lightweight outdoors models.


I will post a thread with more details later ....

DennisZ

DennisZ wrote: »

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it is also fact - depron is not available from h/w shops in Ireland .

I was wrong - depron is available from B&Q (Airside, Swords) - 6sq.m pack = 18euro.
Nice green colour :rolleyes:


It is called "Floormaster green foam underlay".
Pack contains 10 sheets 120x50cm

airheli1201

DennisZ wrote: »

I was wrong - depron is available from B&Q (Airside, Swords) - 6sq.m pack = 18euro.
Nice green colour :rolleyes:


It is called "Floormaster green foam underlay".
Pack contains 10 sheets 120x50cm

is it 6mm?? i live in Swords so i might drop down to it later if it's 6mm.

DennisZ

airheli1201 wrote: »

is it 6mm?? i live in Swords so i might drop down to it later if it's 6mm.

yes, it is 6mm one

hobie

DennisZ wrote: »

yes, it is 6mm one

Does the quality look as good as RC Depron? .......

DennisZ

hobie wrote: »

Does the quality look as good as RC Depron? .......

probably not
it seems to be a bit softer and has same finish on both sides (or I'd say - no finish at all) ... so it is not that stiff as "rc depron" .

coolwings

The depron I get in GreenHobbyModel, Harolds Cross is white both sides, with the depron name printed in faint almost see through light green at intervals on each sheet. Does the job for me. :-)

DennisZ

coolwings wrote: »

The depron I get ....<removed>... is white both sides, with the depron name printed in faint almost see through light green at intervals on each sheet.

same as depron that started this thread
Depron-6-mm---full-Carton-20m

coolwings

For small models I have used it as it comes, both flat and heat-gun curved.
But based on how the model I'm doing right now is coming along - I think I will be using depron and balsa together with fibreglass a lot more in future models. The balsa frames, with a surface skin of depron with fibreglass on composite suits making large size models very well.

airheli1201

i just got the 6mm depron in B&Q. the price is Amazing!!!! €14 for 6 sqm!! can't wait to start building after i finish my college exams!