Just thought I'd give you the head's up on a material I've not encountered before.
For silly money I bought a dozen 'planks' of a material which looked a little like uPVC at a boot (bring and buy) sale yesterday, which pretty obviously had formed some kind of display stand.
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Thanks to Google I managed to track down the manufacturer, who had made these display stands for Homebase (one of our High Street 'sheds'), and discovered that this material is called 'Foamex'.
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Turns out that Foamex is not as robust as the uPVC equivalent, but is a very common display and signage material. The reason I'm posting about this is that although Foamex isn't exactly cheap when purchased new, once a display stand has exhausted it's useful life, it's value becomes zero - even less than zero perhaps, as it then becomes a disposal problem. So - it might be worth putting your name down with large store managers as someone who will remove any unwanted display stands.
The planks I have are 10mm thick and will be used for tops and bottoms of Nuc boxes instead of the more usual plywood - which as we know has a tendency to warp.
LJ