Date:         Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:46:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Sound proofing - my version
Comments: To: Chris Mills <scmills@tntech.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <5.0.0.25.2.20010218223845.017094e0@gemini.tntech.edu>
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Hold on,

Don't use the torch on stuff, can't imagine how you would do it properly in
a van...

Instead use the self- adhesive membrane made by EMCO - "Progard"

Plastizied asphalt with a plyethlyene membrane on onedie and adhesive on the
other.

I used it on my van last summer (posted info in archives).

Alistair


on 2/18/01 11:24 PM, Holly and Chris Mills at scmills@TNTECH.EDU wrote in
part:

> I hope this bit of info helps some of you and it applies to anything old
> and noisy.

> A roll 3 feet by 45 feet cost me $42. The opposite side of the material is
> similar to regular tar paper but not prone to tearing - in fact you
> couldn't if you tried.
>
> It weighs about 50 lbs for the whole roll.
>
> He questioned me to the exact trade name of the stuff in the magazines
> (Dynamat) and told me he was sure that Dynamat was a 'John Mansfield Co'
> trademark and was generally used (as I understood it - our conversation was
> held during a hard rain under a tin roofed pavilion) for walk mats in
> roofing - sections of flat tar roofing with a thicker membrane suitable for
> foot traffic (maintenance people). It was also cheap and very similar to
> what I purchased - naturally he had my stuff in stock and didn't have the
> raw Dynamat though he said he could get it if I wanted to wait a few days.
>
> So looks like the magazine guys are making a fortune off of folks willing
> to pay retail price for Dynamat. My version won't have peel and stick glue,
> so I'll have to use spray can glue I think, but I am very excited about a
> successful hunt!
>
> Hope this helps some of you out there.
>