Simple homemade DIY Hot wire cutter or router table

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Here's my homemade hot wire foam cutting router, capable of cutting multiple parts of any shape accurately to a template, or used freehand to cut shapes.
It can also cut various angled bevels and can be used to cut straight pieces with a rip fence attached.
I use mine to make templates of the plans available from sources such as RCPowers.com so that when I crash, replacement depron parts can be quickly cut.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• DIY
• homemade
• foam
• cutter
• router
• depron
• bluecor
• fanfold
• epp
• nichrome
• 12v

[Vitaliy711]

What gauge of nichrome

wire do you suggest using?

Really nice setup you have,

one of the best.

[v6133cl]

@Vitaliy711

Can't remember exactly what gauge I used (80 seems to sound familiar?) I bought it off ebay a long time ago and the description suggested use as a hot wire.

It's the same stuff that florists use

[YouTees]

Wow! You are fast!!!!! :D :D :D steel guitar string works fine for this. use the second(or third) to the thinnest one(not a guitar player...don't know the name of the string) and hook it to 12V DC car batt charger.

[v6133cl]

@YouTees

The second from bottom E is the B string, and the third one up is the G string.

Thanks for the tip, will try find some old guitar strings and try this.

[ThePlaneboys]

do you use nichrome?

[v6133cl]

@ThePlaneboys

Yes ni-chrome wire bought of ebay, though you can get it from florist shops or pull apart some old toasters and recycle the wire within.

[LWJCarroll]

Hi, thanks for putting that one up...although Google seems intent in marrying me of to a "Beautiful Chinese Woman"..lol..Rgds..Laurie

[grunt182820]

@bagofbones11 i'm 45 and had a smirk

[bagofbones11]

@v6133cl haha "G string" lol im very inmature

[vmat377]

Will you release plans on the construction of one of these routers?