HWC – Hot Wire Cutter, my new favourite toy!

As my plans move forward and I need too start seeing how my drawings can look like in real life, to do so i have been experimenting with different types of material to make shapes from and i have landed on high density foam.

But I don’t want my shop to look like it`s been snowing inside and i don`t want the dust from grinding – to the rescue – The hot wire cutter !

For another side project concerning electroplating I bought a big direct current (DC) generator from a workshop , it has 3 channels – where 2 of them are adjustable from 0-30 Volts and 0-5 Amps, they can also be run in parallel giving me a total of 0-60 volts and 0-10 Amps. and the best, it was dead cheap!

Ohm`s Law baby!

I took a piece of tubing, 10mm in diameter  and bent it into a U shape, took a standard 0,8 mm Stainless steel string and attached it tho the ends.. and cranked up the amps until it started so sink into the styrofoam – and then I gave it some more juice just to get the cutting speed up a bit.. untitled (1 of 2)-2untitled (2 of 2)-2

Works like a charm, next addition to this is to make a cutting table to be able to make pieces with a bit more precision.

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