Foam popper

[RHenn]

Tied this popper with foam I glued together and turned down with a Dremel tool.

[Uncle Jesse]

Very nice job, I use the same technique using foam from flip flops. My daughter had a pair of white flip flops that were about 2" think which can yield several bodies from one plug. Of course, coloring wi th markers doesn't give the crisp lines of gluing layers together. That bug should produce lots of bluegills and some bass for you.

[ldice]

What would be the best way to cut the foam out? I have tried copper tubing, but they look kind of torn up. That is a nice looking popper.

[Uncle Jesse]

What would be the best way to cut the foam out? I have tried copper tubing, but they look kind of torn up. That is a nice looking popper.

Probably the best thing I have found is the shaft from a wrecked umbrella. If you can find a automatic umbrellas that collapses to a smaller carrying size they are ideal, some have steel shafts, some brass. Either works well if you will chuck it in a variable speed electric drill, an AC powered works bettter than a cordless because they have higher speeds at the top end. Square off the end of the cutter and sharpen the edge, the dremel does a nice final sharpen, deburr. The umbrella shaft will possibly yield two or three sizes of cutter. I found one with a hexagon shaft that worked great.

[Kaboom1]

I bought a set of these....

http://www.harborfreight.com/9-piece...-set-3838.html

I had a machinist buddy turn down the larger sizes to fit in my drill. You can also punch out the 2&3 mm foam the old fashioned way...with a hammer, and glue the disks together. Both methods work well.

Brad

[ducksterman]

The copper tubes should work if sharpened and if you use a drill instead of just turning by hand.

I did exactly what Brad did including the machinist friend.


Also made a larger one by grinding off the saw teeth and sharpening.