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Re: seat foam

Subject: Re: seat foam
From: Brian Rauchfuss - PCD <brauchfu@pcocd2.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:40:30
> Forwarded from the bounce bin. Message is from
> "Chuck Popenoe" <chuckp@smartbolts.com>
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> I recall reading somewhere of an aircraft builder using a less-
> frightening seat foam material called something like "dragster foam",
> which purportedly has similar characteristics as temperfoam but at a
> lesser cost.  Does anyone know anything about this product?

When I last looked into this, there were two products of this nature,
temperfoam and confoam (sp?).  They have very simular properties, but
confoam is cheaper.  Someone once told me that confoam was not as good
at absorbing crash energies, but I don't know why this would be so.

Brian


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