Pelican Case Foam Customization [pics]

nsutherl · Post by **nsutherl** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:45 pm

I got around to cutting the foam in my Pelican 1750 this weekend. Spots cut out for the Wingmaster, 10/22, 2x10/22 mags, and my bore cleaning rod.ere's the finished product:

Here's our setup. My buddy is an Electrical Engineer at Qualcomm so he brought home the DC power supply.

Post by **Vitaly** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:00 pm

Nice job!

Randomguns · Post by **Randomguns** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:01 pm

What did you use for the wire?

nsutherl · Post by **nsutherl** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:07 pm

Randomguns wrote:What did you use for the wire?

We used this.

It was probably a little on the thin/fragile side, but we had the power supply set for constant current right at the sweet spot for that particular wire (1.1 A). We fed the foam pretty slow while cutting to avoid breaking the wire.

DarwinsFlinch · Post by **DarwinsFlinch** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:15 pm

Really nice fit. How is the foam surface underneath?

nsutherl · Post by **nsutherl** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:47 am

DarwinsFlinch wrote:Really nice fit. How is the foam surface underneath?

Not really sure what you're asking, but I left the top and bottom pieces of foam alone. I saved all of the cut-out pieces in case I needed to slice them into short sections and reinsert them to create "pedestals" for the narrow parts of the gun to sit on, but I ended up just leaving it and setting the guns all the way down on the bottom piece of foam.

JBall · Post by **JBall** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:50 am

Looks very, very nice.

MStarmer · Post by **MStarmer** » Sat May 11, 2013 10:58 pm

I've done a few cases like that, it's hard to make it look good. Great job!

Now for the rest of us I found this place that will customize inserts based on a template you provide, they can use just about any kind of foam it appears too. I have one hard case for my prized Noveske AR but was going to get several inserts cut so I can use the same case for multiple guns/configurations.

http://www.custom-foam-inserts.com/

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