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Jeff,
What kind of Styrofoam and where did you
get it?
Bill
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I used a couple 4'x8' sheets of 2 inch thick pink housing insulation foam from the Home Depot aviation supply store. I used a metal straightedge and scored halfway thru with a razor knife and then snapped it. Quick, easy and not too expensive.
At some point in the past I did an experiment in which I put a block of this foam on a scale and pushed down on it with the end of a 1/2 inch rod. I remember the rod begining to penetrate at about 50-100 PSI. The load pressure supporting the plane is well below this, perhaps 5 PSI max.
I thought about making a concave top piece of foam, contoured to fit the wing. But, I tried it first without that, and found it worked quite well to just use a flat top piece.