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I need to change the foam around the suction cups and good ideas on how to tackle this project??????

We changed cups and all from the old style without foam. Obviously this was simple. We debated just adding foam, but woods told us it would be fairly tedious and messy, but they are good to talk to.
GQ will obviously sell you the parts.
Maybe consider ordering a new set and sending old ones in to have done for backup?

We order the foam rings direct from woods. Clean carefully, then rubber cement them.

I have a few rings here already, so basically clean and peel the old ones off and rubber cement them on???

That easy?

Yes.
Real simple. If you are concerned, Woods will walk you through it, give you some pointers, and sell you some "special rubber cement."
I keep a full set of either repaired or new cups handy for quick change out.

Real easy to do yourself. The "special glue" is contact cement. nothing more.

We use a dremmel with some kind of grinding stone or the one with sand paper on a drum. Just sand or grind off the old foam till you get to the rubber. Clean with DA and glue them on with contact cement.

One little tip for installing them is to cut the ring in half so its just a strip and not a big floppy ring. Then just feed it onto the ring. Doing it this way, you will end up with a little extra foam for some reason. I just trim off the excess just a lil long and push it in with a little more contact cement to keep the seal tight.

very easy once you have done a couple.

Makes a big mess grinding off the foam. Might want a fan around blowing the black dust away from ya.

Glued up right and they wont come off.

could someone post a picture of the foam ring ?
we have the woods 10 pad and i was told they cant be restored , so i bought all new pads , is the foam ring an addition to the pads ?
i still have my old pads

The raised outer foam ring is the portion they are speaking of. It can be replaced with contact cement and a a new piece of foam.

This outer ring that marker is pointing at can be replaced ?

YEP!

Curtis just got his 250 membership back on this thread.

SFA rocks

ya can call me a hoarder , but it just didn't feel right tossing out them pods ,

glad i kept them

now got to figure out how to get them foam rings from Wood's

I get mine from BB. Think GQ has them

since a lot of SFA members have vaccum lifters this would make a good vid on how too ?

how about we send our pads to you and you fix them ?

I need to replace some soon. When I do I will take some step by step pics and post them.


You could have it done by the time you box them up and ship them. Its that easy

help , i need help doing this , i need to do this or buy all news pods

can you tell me were to get the foam material ??

I will try direct from Woods again today , last time they didnt know anything about foam replacement material

Thanks\

Curtis

Curtis,
Ask Woods for part # 54212.

I'll try to do a step by step pic thingy tomorrow.

But its soooo simple. Basically just scrape off all the old foam and glue and replace. Scraping/ grinding done with a dremmel.
Wipe em off and glue them on.

Call me if needed