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    • CommentAuthorhairydude
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2014 edited
     
    Hi all,

    Im looking for recommendations for bonding EPS sheets to OSB and also EPS to EPS.

    Also how does everyone cut the EPS, ive looked at hot knives but they aint cheap - old handsaw?

    Cheers
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2014
     
    I bond it with urea-formaldehyde adhesive.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWrokkSA1Ig
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    Hot knives are great, around £60 on ebay from a german seller last time I looked. You can also use a car battery charger/lab PSU and some nichrome wire and home brew a cutting table quite easily. I use both. Avoid a saw as much as possible as you will just make a mess, the Bacho insulation saws are the best (wavey blade like bread knife) but aren't much good for thicker EPS.
    • CommentAuthorwoodgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014
     
    I used illbruck PU010 and FM310 for my EPS foor sheets. The PU010 is the proper panel adhesive but the FM310 also bonds and gap fills and is cheaper and has a higher initial expansion.
    Cut EPS with table saw up to 100mm. Car battery .22g nichrome wire and spring handle electric fencer tensioner to keep wire tight. That did up to 300mm thick. Cant work out how to upload pic from phone.
    • CommentAuthorwoodgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014
     
    Hopefully pic of battery EPS cutter ..
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014
     
    Gor, looks horribly like a 3D CAD screen - Cut By Profile>(almost invisible) 'Imaginary Line'.
    • CommentAuthorwoodgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014 edited
     
    Here is the cut. Pic wrong way round.
    • CommentAuthorMikeRumney
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2014
     
    couple of threads on here already about this ... will have a look and post links if found
    • CommentAuthorMikeRumney
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2014
     
    ... search "eps" for 30 threads, some of which will be relevant (:-)
    • CommentAuthorhairydude
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2014
     
    Thanks all, will search the threads. That homemade write cute looks interesting. I'll consult YouTube on how to make one!
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      CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2014
     
    FWIW, all the EPS in my foundations was cut with: handsaws for the less dense stuff and a seriously large grinder for the dense stuff. Not as neat as a hot wire for sure, but it all worked.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2014
     
    And you thought it was snowing!

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