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An impressive tool to flash in front of your brother-in-law. If he doesn't read our catalog, he won't have a clue! If your beads need reaming, nothing reams beads like diamond-coated bead reamers. Diamond files never wear out, hardly, unless you file diamonds with them. You could basically do the same thing a toaster does by connecting your wire directly to the main power line. The difference is that a toaster will have a much longer wire coiled inside so it will be able to dissipate a lot of heat.
I think one could make a foam cutter using the main AC power line, by using some resistors, or just some extra wire, coiled somewhere on the circuit, which will only consume some of the power.
But in that case touching the wire would be a life hazard. High voltage would also require connections to be very secure and cables attached very well. Such work should not be performed by anyone who's not an electrician. They smell horrible and cause horrible headaches. I found this out the hard way. If you have to work inside, have a fan nearby to blow the smoke away, like with soldering. Very nicely done and very informative.
Just started working with foam and it is nice to see things that have worked for others. I've wanted to build one of these for a while. I even bought the nichrome wire already but seeing this gives me the push to do it. This looks super-useful. I do some prototyping with foam for composites and this looks like it'd be a great way to save some time and not create dust on my way to a form Reply 7 years ago. Mine was a discarded 80cmx25cm, 20mm thick piece that I had from another project. A furniture workshop may give you scrap pieces for free or for a very small price.
The arm of the cutter needs to withstand some considerable tension, so look for a material strong enough for that. I needed two types of screws. Some shorter than the thickness of my particle board 1. Bike brakes have a spring that's very good for our job. You can use a regular coil spring if it's strong enough. Computer cases have some slots on the rear panel which are covered with metal plates. They get to be replaced as you install various boards there. You can either use one of these cover metal plates, or detach one from an old video card, modem, lan card, etc.
I've run it a few times against a piece of wood to straighten it. These wires are easy to get where I live from shops that sell household items. Lots of people here build electric heaters with them. You can alternatively use a guitar string, though I think it won't be just as good.
Nicrome has a higher resistance so it will get hotter. It also has a higher melting point than steel. Do not try to use copper or aluminum wire, as they have very low resistance and they will cause your other conductors to get hot as well, and you will also damage your power source! I've found out that voltage doesn't matter that much. Phone chargers are usually not strong enough for this purpose.
You'll need to read the specs from your adapter. A laptop charger should be good, but you may need to use a longer piece of wire or add some resistors on the circuit, because it may cause the wire to overheat. You may also not want to risk burning the charger of your running laptop.
Some people have managed to adapt an old ATX power source to use for their styrofoam cutters. I've tried that, but the source got burned. You can also use batteries, but I find that a bit wasteful. What I'm using right now is an 1A 4. I've measured the intensity of the electrical current when my foam cutter was running, and it was somewhere between 1. That means my adapter is used over it's designed capabilities and it may burn out unexpectedly from overheating.
I try to switch it off whenever I'm not using the cutter, and so far it's running with no problems. It used to heat up much more when I was charging my cd-player, so I guess it will hold for the job.
A variable power supply would offer the advantage of being able to adjust the current, and thus the temperature of the wire.
They also have fuses and protection circuits that would make your foam cutter safer to use. If you use very thin wires, they will get hot as well and may burn out.
You can now start to cut your pieces of foam and experiment with the temperature.
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