Can't find cloroplast! Where do you get it??? Or is there a better alternative?
 

I can't seem to find coroplast anywhere! I tried Lowes, Home Depot, and several local hardware stores. Most had never even heard of it! And the closest thing anyone had was some black plastic roll for going over the eve of a roof.

Where do you get coroplast?? Is there another alternative to using it? I'm going to be making wheel skirts and a belly pan.

Thanks for the help!

-CorollaMaster

political signs that have "fallen down."

Look up a sign shop in the phone book and give some companies a call.

Try a sign store. Or wait until after election day - there'll be tons of it discarded by all the losing candidates...

LOL!!! getnpsi that has to be the best suggestion I've heard yet!

You can probably go to the local candidate office and get them w/o crime. if you wanted to be active, you could say look this is for my gas mileage, I'm trying to be green etc. Maybe you'll get in the paper.

Another quick question while we're on the topic, is there any suggestion as far as what gauge coroplast i should look for?

good question :thumbup:

although not as light as caroplst, I used some "FRP" panels which were pretty durable and light. That's the stuff you find behind urinals in bars and other places to wash the "public" off :). It's like fiberglass sheeting. I got it at Home depot for about 30 bucks a sheet.

4 mil is fairly common and probably best suited to our applications.

You should be able to find it on-line.

http://www.beacongraphics.com/supplies/coroplast.html

If its being used in the underbody, and color does not matter. You can get it free.

I got mine from Lowe's... I ask were i can buy material that this box is mad of. They didn't sell it, so They gave me some boxes.

to be exact it was in the home and garden section. I think it was the box for the Black ground covering. The stuff you put down so weeds don't grow.

They were big. but the cover was red, and the box it self had printing.

You can get loads of the stuff free from a recycling center ( or at least the ones around here ) ......and it's FREE !

88CRX : I work at Lowes and I shudder to think of someone having to actually buy this stuff. Besides, we only carry the small sheets at Lowes.

If you get the signs that are at the recycling centers, some of the sheets are large enough to cover the entire front end of your car.

Not only is getting your signage from a recycling center an Earth friendly way to Ecomod your car , it's ....FREEEE !


Did I mention it is FREE ??

Dang! Where's my phone book? Where's the closest recycling center? Front air dam, here I come!:D

Yeah Recycle, it's the ECOmodder Way!!!

I had to BUY mine :(

Its not used as much over here in the UK, other than for small 'For Sale' signs outside houses.

AX where did you buy the plastic? and how did you get it home? any continuous sheet big enough for the under belly of a car probably wouldn't fit in it. did you have to bend it? or was it already cut up into managable chunks? if so how did you join them together without having the joins mess up the aero?

I know you're asking the other guy, but I used all 18" by 24" election signs on my car and joined them with heavy duty duct tape.

whats the best fixing method for under the car? nylon cable ties and duct tape? i don't want this thing to come off when i am doing 70.

is this corrugated plastic signs heat shrinkable? or am i confusing that with lexan?

what is lexan?

If you are talking about Coroplas, it's not heat shrinkable. It's a bit less flexible than good corrugated cardboard. But, will last for years in the outdoors.

Lexan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lexan is a very hard plastic. Many times it's used to provide safety shields
on power tools and bank teller cages.

In thin sheets, it can be sawed up and used for all sorts of applications.
But, since it's glass-like, the thicker sheets (1/8 to 1/4 inch) might not
be best thing for under body shields. Put in a screw too tight and it will
crack like glass. A hard impact can break it like glass. Unless it's thick.
It has some flex, but not much. (unless it's thin).

A lot of people have been injured trying to break lexan windows,
while throwing big rocks (or shooting air rifles) at it, only to have
the projectile bounce right back at them.. :)

i got an 8ft by 4ft for $15 from a local sign shop.

Hm... so maybe I shouldn't be using lexan to create a fastback on my Del Sol... I thought that it was made for safety windows and stuff, ie, does not shatter.

um there are contradictions all over that statement. and this is why wikipedia is not a credible source. LEXAN is a company name. They make polycarbonate. other companies make it too, but it is commonly known as lexan.