{"id":63,"date":"2010-09-07T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=63"},"modified":"2010-09-07T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:17:51","slug":"hot-wire-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Hot Wire Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the delivery of the Styrofoam sheets for the payload container I decided to make a hot wire cutter. Utilising an old DC PSU from some thing and after getting some proper Nichrome wire (note fuse wire doesn&#8217;t work!) I constructed the following hot wire cutter out of some old wood and a workmate. Using some work working techniques I decided to make a guide for the Styrofoam rather than marking a line and cutting down the line. By placing a block of wood marking the exact distance between the wire and the edge of the Styrofoam I was able to get some near perfect cuts. I would strongly recommend a set square to check the edges are 90&#8242; but for my first attempt I was really chuffed.<\/p>\n<p>The on\/off switch was a paper clip \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to construct a second rig to make notches in the pieces so they all fit snugly together but for the mean time here it is :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_4820.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64\" title=\"Hot Wire Cutter\" src=\"\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_4820-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_4820-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_4820-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_4820.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the delivery of the Styrofoam sheets for the payload container I decided to make a hot wire cutter. Utilising an old DC PSU from some thing and after getting some proper Nichrome wire (note fuse wire doesn&#8217;t work!) I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=63\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}