[time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?

[shalimr9 at gmail.com]

You could make a form (a mold) with cardboard and use a can of polyurethane insulation to fill it with your OCXO inside (protected by a plastic bag) like the "foam-in-place" principle. It will be exactly the size you want, pretty stiff, strongly bonded to the cardboard, so it will be easy to mount things on it if needed and with a minimum number of seams.

It may be more work than cutting sheets of styrofoam though.

Didier KO4BB

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From: John Ackermann N8UR
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Subject: [time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?
Sent: Jan 6, 2012 1:39 PM

I am looking for a readily available (from Home Depot or other local 
source) insulating material to use in a chassis that's housing a 
sensitive OCXO.  My goal is just to slow down any external thermal 
transients so the oven loop has time to react gracefully.

I'm thinking of something in sheet form that I could glue to the inside 
bottom and side of the metal chassis.  The trimmed sheet sizes will each 
probably end up being around 4 x 8 inches.  I have enough clearance for 
a thickness of a half inch or so.  I'd like to avoid a bat material as 
that would be hard to mount neatly.

Long lifetime (ie, not getting all crumbly after a few years) is 
important as I don't expect this oscillator to get cold until I do.

Any suggestions of a material to look for?

Thanks,

John

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