Has anyone used Styrospray 1000?

I’m in charge of making a crazy thing for school - I’ve been reading about this wonderful stuff but I had a few questions I seem unable to google find. Looking for a human with some experience.

PS look at this crazy stuff:

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Might help posting what your questions are? No snark in message.

Reminds me of the glue soaked string art I did as a kid with my mom.

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we soaked the string in elmers glue and wrapped it around the balloon. Once dried we would pop the balloon and pull out the pieces leaving the hard string shell.

Yes, it would help wouldn’t it. Non-snark from a potentially snark soaked answer appreciated.

I saw it referenced with and instructables with this unbelievable chandelier and it seems interesting to experiment with chandelier of gloriousness: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Packard-Chandelier-I-Made-It-at-TECHSHOP/

I’m wondering about the weight of it - seems completely minimal based on the info I could find. I’m limited based on the way they are hanging the sucker I’m making. The look of it on foam core. Can it be tinted or is it just a one shot molly and paint it after. The application of what I’m doing is simple. I’m not even sure it warrants this - it’s more like I saw it and I could justify using it for it. Just some general tips and tricks.

Looks like it would weight about 1.5 pound per Sq Ft of coverage with a .25 inch thickness. A Gallon should cover about 6.5 Sq Ft at a .25 inch thickness. I’m guesstimating this based on their info on the website.

As for pigmentation, polymers can handle powder pigments pretty well without messing up the reaction. Liquid pigments can sometimes be an issue, but I haven’t had much issue with the liquid pigments from reynolds advanced material with other 2 part polymers.

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biggity bam spalsta cam

I have a dream of making a yard full of Alien eggs (from the Alien movies) for Halloween. This stuff may just help me realize my dream. Probably costs a fortune though, so dream squashed again.

For a product with “spray” in the name, though, seems like the video should show them spraying the product…

You can spray apply it.

Looks like a dual sprayer application and the mix is about 50/50 so as long as your spraying about the same on both guns you will probably get a good enough mix.

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Does that mean what I think it means, 2 sprayers, like, as in, 1 component in one sprayer and another component in another? Because I see 1 hose for breathing air, and one for spraying air, and a big hopper for the product (looks like a wallboard texture hopper/gun). Maybe I misunderstand. Or mis-see… :smiley:

LOL, you are correct.

I’ve used a similar setup with a split hopper. It used a single air supply, but ran 2 splay nozzles which mixed when applied. I thought it was the the ceiling popcorn sprayer at first glance, you can check my edits. But then I saw the weird shadow on the hopper and thought, if this is fancy stuff, they would use the 2 part sprayer, especially if the stuff is quick setting when mixed.

But, I’m also half working/ not working. So you are not getting my full attention. :wink:

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Ohhhh I like that. I did see one thread from 2009 (so not relevant) stating that it was somewhere in the $60 gallon range. Not bad if you ask me.

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