I've been in aviation for over 40 years and long before I started, they were already shadowing tools for inventory control. A standard utility knife with 9mm snap-off blades is all you need to use and does a great job.
True ken. Im a old school aviation guy myself. The new electric foam cutter is far easier than the old way. Been there, done both. Im giddy with this new box i just shadowed with so much more accuracy and ease.
we did this almost 50 years ago, went to an art and craft store, and bought sheets of 1" foam, cut foam to fit each drawer then laid tools on foam and traced tools with a black marker. to cut out the markings, we used a soldering gun. we then sprayed the sheets and let them dry, next day I inserted foam back into drawers and placed tools in their chosen locations. not only looks good you tell at a glance if something is missing also easy to locate the proper tool.
@Fritz Smith, there are other brands that have been made that foam is made in layers, be careful you will damage and make mistakes this foam looks cheap and nasty for the price and its better to make finger holes at the side of outline to pull the tool out than to try and cut, by eye in perfect layers with a blade like that, be prepared to make mistakes
Hi thanks for a great video. I’m just about to do a complete refit of my metal fabrication workshop. You have given me some great ideas. If you would like to follow along with my refit it starts on the 26th January 2020 Australia Day. I would love any ideas on the refit. Cheers.
Great independent business and I wish you all the best! I am wondering if the paint used to colour the foam is durable, flexible and cleanable? Would it be feasible/possible to have a thicker coloured layer that fills in the cells to make a flat, wipeable surface?
G’day guys. Awesome outcome! Can you tell me the brand name of the foam you used and where you bought it please? Kaizen only make black outside layers. Cheers, Michael 🇦🇺
Hi Pete, That's a great question and we are going to make a video about that right away so stay tuned! Straight away, my thoughts are to use two 70mm sheets of Shadow Foam and cut the shape straight through. If you need any help or advice, do let me know if you can hang on, wait for our video and we'll happily show you how we'd do this. Great question, thanks for commenting 👍
I have already thought about this and If you get a new tool in a drawer that doesn't fit, deal with it temporarily even if it's ugly. Make it work. Then... Set a goal to upgrade all the other tools in that drawer. When you have purchased the new, (and hopefully improved) tools, and you have a replacement for every tool in the draw, run a new sheet of your choice foam. Personally I own many hand tools that will last forever which are good brands like knipex, milwaukee, but mixed in are a bunch of older tools I plan on replacing as I can afford them. I'll use this 'sheet at a time' method. I just with they sold big sheets.
You can put desi-pak’s in your tool box to help prevent rust. I’m an aircraft mechanic in Texas and it’s ALWAYS really humid out here. I’ve been using desi-pak’s in my tool box for years and never lost a tool from rust.
Hi, thanks for the great video. I was wondering is Shadow foam can be cut by laser? I had a DXF (CAD) file of my tools and was hoping to get it organized using Shadow Foam. But I was hoping to get it cut quickly at my local makerspace. Again, great video and a great product!
@@ShadowFoam Thanks for the quick reply. I'm looking to laser cut with the contrasting colors (blue top and red bottom). Do you sell them in the US and how do I order them? Thanks!
Check this. You certainly can cut foam with a laser, but it may not be UK legal to exhaust the fumes, which - depending on the foam material - may be toxic. We are not allowed to cut foam at a School where I volunteer. We are often Safety Inspected. Hence this comment.
You will find yourself spending more time trying to make drawings for the parts and setting up the job on the laser than simply just using a marker and a proper thin and sharp knife with adjustable depth.
At the moment we can only ship to the US from our UK warehouse, which means shipping costs can quickly add up. We are working on introducing Shadow Foam into the US soon though
Hi, Great video, I have just purchased the same tool box and some of your foam and extra blades (arriving today) I am looking forward to creating a tidy tool box environment. I noticed that your standard sheet would not fit that particular top tool tray and the custom price is very high just to accommodate that one draw. I also went 30mm for the smaller draws instead of 50mm in your video, do you see any issues with the small depth foam for these draws and can I ask why you opted for the 50mm. Thanks.
It's just preference, with 30mm the items will stand out of the foam, but with 50mm you can set them all the way in. It's just how you want the finished look to be, neither are wrong
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How to know the people peddling foam dont use their tools? Everything is pristine... and there are no cut outs for your fingers to get around the tool.
I assure you we use our tools daily, everything is pristine because we like a clean workspace and toolbox. With our foam you don't need finger pulls because the foam is soft enough to not warrant them.
Lol, all those colored foams would look like hell after a day of heavy use. I love the organization, but you would need 3 times the drawer space for the same amount of tools
Had to flush the video at the 6 minute mark. Even at 2.0 X speed, it was too painful to keep listening to all the blather instead of just getting to the point.
We have learned a lot about video making and keeping the pace up since making this video! Take a look at a more recent video and let us know if we have upped our game 💪😃
Well if you keep your drawers clean you'll never have a problem. Our other product, Easy Peel is water and common chemical resistant, so it won't ever break down
7 min in stopped watching. Video title is how to cut foam. Should be 2 blokes waffling on forever and not doing anything. That's 1/3 of the video and you have not gotten to the point of the video. If you want to keep and engage people who randomly click on a video, get to the point early, then waffle after you show them what they came for.
We never claim to have reinvented the wheel... But we have created a unique product, as there is no other foam of this kind that comes in the range of colours we offer
@@ShadowFoam There are kits that are precut that you can remove with your fingers, they are not cut all the way through so the foam sticks together like one piece. you buy like a 1000x1000 mm foam piece and all of the foam is already precut in squares of 5x5 mm or so but not all the way through. You just rip out the space you need with your fingers and can even put them back
Geez, so much yada yada unnecessary small talk....Please, in future videos, you could concentrate more into usefull content, not so much into you chatting in front of camera.
I just wish it wasn’t so “screw you” to the environment, it’ll be hurting animals in a thousand years. Industry could have developed a natural source of foam. Making a material like polystyrene or foam is pretty much industrial psychopathy, no emotions for the impact on their own family’s descents.😭
@@ShadowFoam That’s good that it’s potentially recyclable, though real world, how many of the sales unit you sell, will ever make it to a recyclers? I think the current rate for easy stuff is sub 10%, it’s sad that we have created a system which betrays our children’s future and call that normality.😢😢😢
@@brandsthatcreatelitter1648 Unfortunately, there is only so much we can do once the product leaves our warehouse. We use cardboard boxes for packaging and the foam is 100% polyethylene, so it can go in normal, household recycling. We do make this apparent on all packaging, but at the end of the day it is up to the customer to recycle the material. As for the other product, we are trying to find a way to recycle the offcuts, any material that is scrap in our warehouse is sent for recycling, however, offcuts from customers cannot yet be recycled. However, as I said, we are trying to work on this issue.
The different colors is a good idea. Then you can take some paint or tape in color matching the foam.. then mark the tools with it. That way if anyone does use a tool or if your in a hurry or tired it's brainless during clean up.