Simple homemade DIY Hot wire cutter or router table

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:31
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Video speeded up to reduce load time, if you want more information just contact me. I might produce kits or release plans if there’s enough interest. 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 …

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13 Responses to “Simple homemade DIY Hot wire cutter or router table”

  1. ILoveMyBikes says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    Thanks

  2. v6133cl says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    The templates are made from hardboard – shiny side down to reduce friction on the table top and rough side up to help hold the foam in place. Though I also put a few pins through to locate the foam onto.

  3. ILoveMyBikes says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    further to my previous comment, whats your template mede of?

  4. ILoveMyBikes says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    very nice. i might make one of these. I was going to make abow aswell, but this looks awesome. would saved a lot of time and give neater cuts cutting out a tomhe su37 plane.

  5. kivancdogan says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    This machine cuts the foam by heat but you can’t cut a metal with heat because metals melt in very high temperatures. At that temp. your wire may melt too. You should take a look at wire edm machines for cutting metal with wire.

  6. sciencenerd1616 says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    i bet if you get it to a higher voltage you might even be able to slice through metal

  7. v6133cl says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    Hi all,

    Thanks for all the positive comments and personal messages asking for details of the foam cutter.
    I’ve been really busy lately and haven’t had chance to create instructions for building this cutter yet – but stay tuned (or subscribe) and I promise to upload more details soon!

  8. lpkumar83 says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    how to do this wire cutter

  9. v6133cl says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    Unfortunately I Didn’t video the build, but I did take a few photo’s at various stages of the build – so I will try to put them together to make a build video.
    Got a few other projects on the go at the moment, so will get onto this when I get chance

  10. eximyes says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    hey can you send me the plans for the hot wire cutter just make a vid and post it or add a link to it, just something like that

  11. v6133cl says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    Hey alright! :0D Lol, sorry Dave, couldn’t resist the chance of using your trademark greeting.
    No the edges on this one weren’t to straight. The templates are the key to getting good results, and in my rush to test the router I rushed the template shown. It was actually cut with a jigsaw, so the router pin follows every little defect.
    But I’m in the process of transferring all the PDF’s I’ve bought of your site onto hardboard – and I’m taking my time with these one’s, to do your designs justice

  12. RCSuperPowers says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    WOw, really straight!

  13. CatherineNM says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM

    wanna watch me on cam? MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. E

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