Naked Egg Drop- Any Experience?

[chez0011]

Ok, Here is what I found that worked for me. I was limited on time etc. so I just used stuff from my garage, fortunately I've been doing construction lately and happened to have some 3.5" fiberglass insulation, lumber and plastic.

I cut a cardboard box to 10cm. high, laid 3.5" fiberglass inside, then I cut a piece of 2 mil plastic about three feet longer than each end of the box. I laid the plastic over the box of fiberglass, laid two 2X8 pieces of lumber over the excess plastic, wrapped the plastic around the 2X8's and pulled the plastic taut. I dropped a jumbo egg from 30 feet and made it on the first try.

When the egg hit the plastic, the boards moved slightly toward the box and slowed the egg down enough for the fiberglass to finish the job. The very light 2 mil plastic helped too. The variable here would be how heavy the boards are, extra weight may be needed depending on the species and dimention of the lumber used.

Thanks for all you ideas, I didn't use up too much of my spring break working on it. If this initial try hadn't worked I was going to make an airbag system with a variable speed 12v. blower that would have been a big pain in the.... and if the air bag didn't work I was going to soak the eggs in vinegar. And if that didn't work I'm not sure what I was going to do cuz I didn't have time to send off for memory foam, I guess I would have been eating scrambled eggs!

Thanks again,
Brent