The Tips of Using Custom Cut Foam For Your Pelican Case!

Pelican cases are available in various sizes and dimensions in the market. Most pelican manufacturers offer pelican cases with foam inserts. These foam inserts are cubed layered thick foams which are inserted into pelican to keep fragile objects. Another way is to buy the custom cut foam for your older or existing pelican case.

Custom Cut Foam

If you have ever used custom case foam to assemble it into your pelican case, I am sure, you will make sure to cut it securely and particularly for the component you want to protect. Here I am going to discuss some tips to cut it professionally:

The solid cube foam inserts usually come in 3 to 4 Inches thick pieces which are used to protect medium to heavy objects. In a classic 15 Inches pelican case, 3 Inches to 4 Inches solid thick custom foam pieces are the ideal choice. When you design your pelican case in the initial 4 inches layered foam would be a great choice as long as your object is 4 inches thick or less. What happens if one of your items is thicker than 4 inches? At this time the pick and pluck foam would be difficult to fit.

With custom case foam pieces you don't need to worry about shedding because the cavity was bent by cutting a single foam piece because custom solid foam inserts start as big and wide foam blocks. If you are worried about the cutting of this thick foam size then you don’t need to be because the perfectly horizontal along with vertical dimension can be cut to any height according to the need.

Custom Case Foam

The problem with cubed layered custom foam is that as your components are inserted in and pulled out from their compartments over and over again, the foam layer tends to degrade its quality and shape. Frequent pulling of the components and pushing into the back causes cubed foam to start to crumble into small sections of the layered foam that tend to break off which looks disgraceful. Now the component pelican case will be filled with pick and pluck foam pieces instead of the custom compartments you were hoping for when you bought the pelican case.

A custom cut foam insert is worth the small bonus amount from the beginning. In fact, pick and pluck cubed or custom foam is less expensive in the starting, but when you replace it a couple of times before knowing that you should have had a custom solid foam made to start with, custom foam ends up being less costly if invested in from the beginning.

However, the above-mentioned tips must be considered before buying your pelican custom foam for your valuable components. So, buying custom case foam is an ideal choice to protect the expensive fragile tools of your shipping cases.