Hacker RP10 foam replacement.

[boater sam]

The RP10 is one of the easiest Hacker sets to re-foam. The piping around the edge of the front/rear panels means that there's no need to worry about doing a perfect job on the rounded corners of the later sets (very hard to unglue and re-glue those perfectly).

The foam was 1/8" in old money. I use 3mm scrim foam that I bought from Woolies Trim: https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-1562-scrim-foam

Obviously there are many other sources of foam, but finding stuff that thin might be tricky. You'd also have to ask yourself what sort of lifespan it might enjoy - a lot of it is found in fairly disposable objects. I figured that scrim foam is sold to people who are making something that is expected to last, so it hopefully is a better quality than other stuff. But obviously there's no way of knowing that for sure. All I can say is that the scrim foam I bought a decade ago is still good - even the unused bits exposed to light - but a decade isn't all that long, I suppose.

Thanks Mark.
What dissolves the glue without wrecking the Rexine?  Do you reuse the staples or new stainless steel ones?
Sam.