Uses for foam strip...

You know that self adhesive foam strip mainly used for weatherstripping? Well, I have found many uses for it in addition to weatherstripping. You can use a small piece of it to quiet a door which people love to slam. You can place it on a dresser drawer if you don't want the wood to hit the frame of the dresser. You can place strips of this foam under ceramic items which you want to display but don't want to scratch, you protect both the display item and the shelf you are displaying it on, and this also prevents vibration from moving the item or causing it to fall and break. I found a great use for this foam strip totally by accident. I collect vintage fedoras and one of my hats was about 1/8 of an inch to big. But I really love the hat so I wanted to make it fit. I looked online and found a hat store which sold an item called a hat size reducer. I thought this was wonderful so I bought two of them at $5.95 each. When I recieved the package I noticed it was nothing more than strips of self adhesive foam. I attached it to my hat and it fit perfectly. I then went to Ace Hardware and purchased 3 different sizes of this foam. I found that the thinner of the three, about 1/8 of and inch thick worked even better since you can put one strip and see how it fits and then you can always add smaller lengths directly over the first strip until you get a good fit. You place this foam under the interior headband. Once it is there it is invisible and will not come off. By the way, the one at Ace was half the price and you get over 10 feet of the stuff. There are two types of this foam, open cell and closed cell. I use the open cell which is more pliable and like a sponge it can be squeezed and it will come bakc to size, so when you use it on a hat it comforms to your head size for a comfortable fit. You can play around with the different sizes to see which fits your needs the best. I am not sure, but I bet you can buy this foam at the dollar store. A helpful hint: when you use this foam on wood or metal you can make it adhere better by blowing some hot air on it with a hair dryer. This activates the adhesive for a good bond. In fact, this idea with the hair dryer can be used on anything that is self adhesive or self stick or peel and stick.

Hope these uses for foam are useful for you. By the way, hats off to the guy or gal who decided to use this foam for hat sizing and gave it a fancy name and package...