Electric Hot Wire Foam Cutter DIY

Hot wire foam cutter for polystyrene foam thermo heating wire foam cutting
Do you hate styrofoam? Does that squeak it makes when you cut it make you cringe? Do those little white balls of debris drive you crazy? Just can't see throwing that white stuff into the trash. The recycle center does not accept it. Make use of what is often thrown away by being able to cut it fast, clean and to the custom size you need.
Hot wire cutters leave little or no mess. Make accurate, straight cuts. Make box liners for shipping. Make your own craft and hobby supplies, model railroad inclines, cake fakes. Harvest blocks like the one in the picture, then resell the sheets here on ebay.
Make filler pieces to ship items, cut down old molded protectors without mess. Styrofoam is light weight and strong, unlike kraft paper or newspaper. Cut clean, straight through, up to 8 inch thick blocks. Turn what you would throw away into custom packing material. Make your own ghost poop. You can even cut circles to make plugs for cardboard tubes.

The hot-wire foam cutter is a tool used to cut plystyrene foam and similar materials.
The device consists of a thin, taut metal wire, often made of nichrome or stainless steel, or a thicker wire preformed into a desired shape, which is heated via electrical resistance to
Approximately 200° C. As the wire is passed through the material to be cut, the heat from the wire vaporises the material just in advance of contact. The depth of the cut is limited
Only by the wire length. Width of cut is limited by throat, if any.
All the characters made by engrave machine.