New Plastazote 1/4″ Thick Foam At Owareusa, 10% off for BPL Readers

It is good that more options like this are popping up. Any reason you decided to offer Plastazote vs Evazote? Evazote seems the more durable material for this type of use, but I am interested in your reasoning – I picked up a bunch of minicell T200 (for pads) and T600 (for pack parts) which seems very nice as well.

Plastazote is a touch lighter for the warmth, less toxic. Lasts fine as a sleeping pad. I have one from the 90’s still going strong and have been offering them for sale since then and have had no complaints. The original use was for padding in oxygen bottle tank bags I made for small aircraft. It works well for that too.

I can appreciate the toxicity aspect, I did some research before making the choice, and by and large most people were not overly concerned with the health impacts (EVA formamide content), but I found both the specs for each (EVA vs PE) to be acceptable for the purposes I wanted it for, with the EVA being just a tad more durable (spec-wise). Either way, glad to know you have some if I need more!

Thanks Dave! just in time

Can you provide a link to a video that would show how flexible this is? Mainly wondering how it would pack and hold shape with folding or rolling.

Too stiff to fold. Rolling works well.

@gingersnap You can turn any reasonable closed-cell foam pad into a folding pad with some simple DIY magic. Ray Jardine even sells kits and instructions, though you need to buy a few items locally:

https://www.rayjardine.com/ray-way/Ray-Way%20Sleeping-Pad%20Kit/index.htm

The basic idea isn’t radical – razor knives, straight edges, and duct tape. I haven’t tried this yet, maybe soon.

— Rex

Dave, is the Plastazote actually white, off white or light gray?

Dave, is this material effective in preventing sleeping pad slippage (especially on DCF floor)?  Thanks!

this thickness is white, the only color I could get for the long 80″ length.

It is not slippery at all.