DIY Foam Cutter from scratch, broken heating elements + phone charger 

Very cool! We are always tearing stuff apart...I like these videos where we actually make/repurpose stuff! Well done, Ralph!

Pretty interesting idea Ralph now you can make some foam cutouts to cast copper.

This is really a great project. Great way to recycle. Cheers from North Carolina.

Whole that a pretty neat idea man. Very handy indeed.

Very cool Ralph .. what a excellent #diy video 👊🏻

that worked really well ralph

fun build Ralph. i used stainless wire for mine. never thought to try and get it from stove elements. cheers

most likely tungsten wire they do make good cutters i made one a few years ago they work well nice show

Hi Ralph, elements are slightly higher scrap price than steel. If the wire is longer or thicker,the more power you will need. Cool idea,thanks for the heads up on this.

You can find that wire in old toasters and hair driers too. It's called Nichrome wire (Nickel chromium). I used a piece of wire about 2 foot long to make styrofoam panels for shipping stuff we sold on ebay. I took a piece of plywood, mounted 2 metal standoff's on it 2 feet apart. I stretched a length of nichrome wire across and secured one end with a screw and nut, and attached a high tension spring to the other end securing it to the other post as well. I used a spring on the end because when you heat up the wire, it sags a little getting a bit longer. The spring keeps the wire taught.. I also used a variable power supply to supply voltage to the cutter to adjust cutting speed. I find large chunks of styrofoam in dumpsters take it home and cut useable sheets about an inch thick. Just pass the large chunk of syrofoam slowly across the plywood through the wire and you get professional looking 1 inch panels you can re-use for Packing material, Insulating your Walls, Etc..

perfect timing on this, I just had to replace my dishwasher and am in the process of dismantling it and I'm also in the process of starting to do stuff with foam..... hmm, we'll have to potentially look into this a bit now

great video ;) great diy

Nice. I've often wished that I had built my HWFC table with a horizontal hot wire instead of vertical, for cutting wide slabs of foam to even thickness.

That is very cool!

Thanks for the tip

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adapters might have short cut off