I did quite a bit of searching and research into foam and if you choose to do so, you can get a superior kind of polyethylene foam or a slightly less expensive polyurethane foam (same as most charcoal case foam) custom cut to the size of your case.
You rip out the inferior pull and pluck cube foam and use spray adhesive to lay the new foam into the case bed, then you cut the shapes of what you want to put in it, the cutting is simple and there’s a lot of content on youtube about how to make a pattern to cut around. This is a very general tutorial but it’s quick and to the point.
The foam comes in layers of your choice in increments of depth so it’s easy to cut to the correct depth and maintain a flat bottom and snug fit, The guy in the video could or should have bought foam with shorter layer increments, you can get all the way down to half inch layers. There is a minimum order of $50 on custom cut foam from the place I’m aware of, but I think it might be worth it since you saved all that money. If you want a link to the foam manufacturing company order estimate page, I’ll pull it up for you.
There are demos on Youtube of people doing more impressive jobs, but most people would rather get the gist in 3 minutes and be impressed later on their own time if the research leads them in that direction.
Also, I believe it’s $50 minimum but I think it does include shipping but not tax. And for the record I was sizing a block of foam thats like 19x26 and cut into half inch layers with a depth of like 3.5 inches and it was at or under the $50 mark, you would only need to replace the bottom layer, the top is fine as is.
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